Win32 Details

Win32 Details is an additional page in Properties dialog named More Properties, similar to Details tab from Windows File Explorer. It allows to conveniently display a specific details about .exe files within a comfort of your file browser.

How to use it

Just right-click any .exe file, go to Properties, and click More Properties button at the bottom of the page.

Installation

From PyPI

Win32 Details can be installed system-widely or just for the current user.

User install:

pip3 install --user win32-details
win32-details --install-user

System-wide install:

sudo pip3 install win32-details
sudo win32-details --install-system

Close currently opened Nautilus instances to load the extension:

nautilus -q

Building from source

Prerequisites

The following packages are required to build win32-details:

• Python >= 3.6,
• A recent version of Nautilus >= 43.x,
• nautilus-python,
• Copy of exiftool (required by PyExifTool),
• PyExifTool
• Meson and Ninja build systems (only needed for Using Meson build option)

Required Python libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Build instructions

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/tfuxu/win32-details.git
cd win32-details

As a library:

Local installation:

pip3 install --user .
win32-details --install-user

System-wide installation:

sudo pip3 install .
sudo win32-details --install-system

Using Meson:

Local installation:

meson builddir --prefix="$HOME/.local"
ninja -C builddir install

System-wide installation:

meson builddir --prefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C builddir install

Warning If you get a Directory already configured message when running meson builddir command, you can append to this command --wipe option to clean build directory before configuration.

Close currently opened Nautilus instances to load the extension:

nautilus -q

Note about Nautilus versions below 43.x

Support for older Nautilus versions has been removed in win32-details 0.5.0, because of moving to Nautilus API 4.0, which deprecates direct usage of GTK widgets in favor of a new model-based interface (which is a shitty decision IMO). In this situation I had three options:

• Maintain both versions of extension, one for Nautilus 43 and above, and one for Nautilus <= 42,
• Make this extension as a standalone program, and use extension to launch it,
• Just deprecate support for older Nautilus versions.

Honestly, I'm not that interested in maintaining a separate version of extension, as majority of people are using the latest version of Nautilus now. Moving a extension to a standalone program would make everything more complicated, and I don't think that many people would want to install an app which just shows them details of EXE files (but maybe, in the future...).

License

Changelog

• 0.5.0:
  • Port extension to Nautilus API 4.0, from this version onward, win32-details won't support Nautilus versions below 43 (more info)
  • Add new Meson build option
  • Change page name to More Properties
• 0.4.0:
  • Add a MD5 Hash row
  • Allow user to copy values from rows (if row is selected, click left one time to select text)
  • Add setup.py for packaging to PyPI
  • Create a small CLI tool for easier installing (based on Nautilus Terminal)
• 0.1.0:
  • Initial release of Win32 Details