On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:29 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Hi, all, > > Per André's request to post features for Gnome 3.2 - here goes. > > A while ago I blogged about the problem of lack of circulation in our > files, and posted a patch for Evince: > > http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2010-08.html#19 > > In summary, while one can go *down* in the file system hierarchy with > Nautilus to open a file, one cannot go *up* from the opened file back > into the file system (presumably to explore files that are "near" the > one you had open). > > Firefox has an "Open in file manager" command for its downloads, which > is pretty useful. I find Evince's "Open containing folder" command > invaluable when I'm organizing PDFs to drag them to a better place. > > I think all apps that let you open documents or files should let you > browse back to the file in the file manager.
Agreed there. > Akshay Gupta, in the CC for this mail, is my Summer of Code student who > will be doing some things around file management, "Finding and > Reminding" for gnome-shell, and such. One of his tasks is to produce > patches for a few apps so that they have an "Open in file manager" > command. > > Nautilus now lets us do this properly: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647204 You might as well point to the canonical bug for it, or the commit. > So, what do you think? The patches for apps should be pretty small, and > they really provide much better circulation within your files. And applications that can "send out" files, could also add a little menu item to send it out using nautilus-sendto (the API there being "nautilus-sendto filename"). Evolution, Totem, Rhythmbox and a number of others allow you to do that. Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
