Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-14 Thread Robin Stocker
Am 14.05.2011 04:23, schrieb Bastien Nocera: 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

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-13 Thread Calum Benson
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).

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:05 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: As an aside, the terminology that most OS X apps have settled on for this feature is either Reveal in Finder or Show in Finder, rather than Open in Finder (Finder being the Mac's file manager). I guess those verbs make it sound more like

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-13 Thread John Stowers
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

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
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

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: 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). Of course with symbolic/real

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : 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

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 17:16 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: 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).

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:36 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I really miss this feature (and the related feature I'd like to see of storing recently used folders as well as recently used files). Excellent use cases, Dave. I've just updated http://live.gnome.org/DocumentCentricGnome with details on

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On 10/05/2011 00:29, 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

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
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:

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:10 +0100, Maciej Piechotka wrote: Hmm. Maybe a better solution would be to somehow drag'n'drop? Say: - Attach xyz.pdf to e-mail: open xyz.pdf drag the window/contents of window to new mail window - Copy abc.gnumeric to CD - open file in gnumeric,

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : 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

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: 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.

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Couldn't there be a common menu in the Shell that would work like the application menu, but for documents? I think it would be a real benefit to know that in every app you use, you're able to perform common actions on the opened