On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:05 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 11 May 2011, at 17:52, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > > One detail of "Open if file manager" is that it is trivial to make apps > > call "nautilus --blahblah", but ideally this should be cross-desktop > > (and I imagine that Firefox and LibreOffice won't like to have > > Gnome-specific stuff like that). Maybe we need to add an option to > > xdg-open(1)?
A few other thoughts on this, as I have noticed myself using the following methods to map open files to the filesystem over the last days. Some of these problems might be obsoleted by a more proper fix, but nevertheless; * I like not only being able to find the file in nautilus, but to copy its path to the clipboard (for later pasting into a terminal) * Many applications (nautilus, rhythmbox, evince, etc) have a File->Properties type window that shows a location label/entry with the full file path. Some standard widget for this case that has 'Copy path to Clipboard' and/or 'Reveal in File Manager' may be useful. John p.s. IIRC nautilus now has a DBus interface that you can use to select files, if the command line approach is not chosen. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list