Nautilus' Open Location Dialog launchable from command line?

[Nigel Tao <nigel tao myrealbox com>]

As somebody mentioned on http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2021 recently:

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Ctrl+L is great for avoiding having to middle click thru a deep folder
structure, but it's only available when you are in a nautilus window.
How about having it the desktop itself and the panels are responsive
to Ctrl+L. That way you wouldn't have to open a nautilus window simply
to be able to Ctrl+L and open the directory you really wanted to be
looking at.
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I like this idea, although I would prefer Ctrl+Alt+L rather than Ctrl+L,
since the former is similar to the current Ctrl+Alt+D for Show Desktop,
and the latter is likely to be used by other applications.

In metacity (through gconf keys in /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands),
I can bind Ctrl+Alt+L to run a command like "firefox".

What I would like to do is something like "nautilus --open-location" to
pop up the "Open Location" dialog (or perhaps the GtkFileChooser
restricted to folders?), and upon "OK" bring up the folder's window.
Would that be feasible?

Another option is to bind Ctrl+Alt+H to "nautilus $HOME" and then rely
on the two-step combo of Ctrl+Alt+H followed by Ctrl+L to bring up the
"Open Location" dialog.  But that leaves me with the Home window open
(in spatial mode), when it is really just a means of getting to the
dialog.


Nigel.