Re: "Open containing folder" for all apps

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

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)
* 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.

John

p.s. IIRC nautilus now has a DBus interface that you can use to select
files, if the command line approach is not chosen.