On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 12:13 +1200, John Stowers wrote: > 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)
Ctrl+C in nautilus will copy the file's URI to the clipboard. You can then paste it in a terminal without any problems (though you'll need to convert it to a local path if your app doesn't take URIs). > * 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. Yeppers. > p.s. IIRC nautilus now has a DBus interface that you can use to select > files, if the command line approach is not chosen. Which it shouldn't be. The D-Bus interface was added just for that particular use case (as well as allowing file copies, etc. for applications, that's how Totem does its "Save a Copy..." implementation). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
