Re: "Open containing folder" for all apps

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

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)?

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 a temporary diversion from the main task at hand, which is probably appropriate.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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