On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:15 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > We are starting to add a command "Show in file manager" to apps that let > you open files (text editor, image viewer, word processor, etc.). This > is similar to the command that Firefox has in the right-click menu in > its Downloads list. > > In Gnome you can do > > nautilus file:///foo/bar.txt > > and it will open a window to show the "foo" directory, with the > "bar.txt" file selected. > > From [1] I can see that KDE wants you to do > > dolphin --select file:///foo/bar.txt > > And I don't know what other desktop environments use to do the same > task. > > Currently xdg-open doesn't support this. Should we just add an > --in-file-manager option so that you can do > > xdg-open --in-file-manager file:///blah.txt > > What do you think?
Could we not standardise on a D-Bus interface for that instead of a horrible hack of a shell script? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
