Does any one know how to make custom actions not appear for particular folders

[fehlix]

What is actually the use case for OPs question?
Would hide the "specific item" by using thunars hidden-feature, provide a workaround?

My use case is to hide the change ownership functions for certain folders.

Ahh thanks. So we back to Jerry's proposal and "hide"/disable change ownership within the actual script itself for certain folders with a given "pattern", as Thunar is not able to accept ignore pattern. Which will still show the Thunar action,
but will not do harm to those folders.
Can you give a list of those folder names, perhabs I have a look to adjust the actions ...

[dolphin_oracle]

$HOME and /

especially since if you just open the file manager, and are in $HOME, even without a file selected, $HOME is selected (as skiddoo pointed out).

[fehlix]

$HOME and /

Change Owner ship to Root
from

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gnome-keyring-daemon -r -d;gksu "chown -R root:root %F"

to

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bash -c 'declare -A F;F=([$HOME]=x [/]=x); declare -a D; for f in "$@"; do [ x${F[$f]} != xx ] && D+=("$f"); done; [ ${#D} == 0 ] && exit; gnome-keyring-daemon -r -d; gksu "chown -R root:root ${D[@]}" ' "" %F

and will ignore $HOME and /
and will do nothing if no other selected.


EDIT: cleared some test echo's

[fehlix]

Would recommend to add "sudo -k" in front of gksu, to clear sudo pw-cache as user can opt to use gksudo triggered by gksu.