Thunar & GPG: context menu

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I wanted GPG-integration in my Thunar context menu, but somehow I thought that KGPG was a bit overkill in an XFCE environment

Using Thunar's built-in "custom actions" editor, I've written a small script and then added custom actions for Thunar.

1) The bash-script
This small wrapper script is necessary, because the filename manipulation (e.g. remove '.gpg' file suffix when decrypting) was not possible by the shell thunar's custom actions are executed in.

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#!/bin/bash
FILE_IN="$2"
DIR="$3"

case "$1" in
    encrypt)
        echo "not implemented, yet."
    ;;

    decrypt)
        FILE_OUT="$DIR/$(basename $FILE_IN .gpg)"
        echo "Decrypting '$FILE_IN' to '$FILE_OUT'..."
        cmd="gpg --output '$FILE_OUT' --decrypt '$FILE_IN'"
        eval $cmd
    ;;

    *)
        echo ""
        echo "SYNTAX: $0 (encrypt|decrypt) <filename> <dirname>"
        echo ""
        echo "<filename>: Use %n"
        echo "<dirname>: Use %d"
        echo ""
        sleep 5
    ;;
esac

Not beautiful, but effective

2) Decrypt:
Add the following custom action in Thunar:

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xterm -iconic -e /usr/bin/thunar-gpg decrypt %n %d

For encryption, I want to figure out a nice way of selecting the "recipient" from the GUI...

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NOTE: there might be troubles with files if they have whitespace characters (e.g. space) in their filename.