Re: "Open containing folder" for all apps

[Robin Stocker <robin nibor org>]

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 "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)
>
> Ctrl+C in nautilus will copy the file's URI to the clipboard. You can
> then paste it in a terminal without any problems (though you'll need to
> convert it to a local path if your app doesn't take URIs).

Even better, you can drag and drop a file from nautilus into the 
terminal. This inserts the path at the caret position, properly 
shell-quoted (for the case when there are spaces or quotes in the name). 
That's an awesome GNOME feature IMO.

Regards,
  Robin