On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 13:40 +0100, Tixy wrote: > And run the script from a 'desktop entry' [1] and your desktop GUI may > let you run it with file arguments just by dropping files onto it. You > can put these 'desktop' files on you desktop or in there own directory > you can open when you have tasks to do. > > The above works for me with LXDE. Though you don't get to edit > parameters to you scripts, just pass files to them.
Or get the 'desktop' file to run the script in a terminal and use shell scripting to ask for parameters. E.g. a 'video-resize' script could ask to width and height with a default to using your most common requirement. -- Tixy
