Re: "Open containing folder" for all apps

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> So, what do you think?  The patches for apps should be pretty small, and
> they really provide much better circulation within your files.
> 
>   Federico
> 
> 

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, drag'n'drop/contents
of window to CD.

>From what I observed as 'family tech help' is that the users are at
least sometimes confused by concept of 'file manager', 'file' or
'folder' (not that I'm using in description any of the word) and their
first intuition to do something with file is to open it.

I am not UI designer however.

Regards

PS. I know that DND of window will clash with moving it but maybe there
is some smart way of doing it.