Re: A must-have feature for Nautlius

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 22:55 +0100, Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Mehdi Fattahi <mah fat gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody
> > In Windows, when you select "Open containing folder" from the Firefox
> > Downloads" window, the directory is opened with the downloaded file
> > auto-selected. This doesn't happen in linux, and causes users a headache to
> > find the downloaded file. I'm not sure but I think it's a nautilus problem
> > and not a Firefox one.
> 
> Actually Nautilus doesn't support such functionality at the moment.
> There is a bug opened in Nautilus' bugtracker [1] to provide the
> functionality, once this feature complete, Firefox will have to use
> this API provided to implement the feature if possible as I'm not sure
> that it can depends on dbus.

Actually the Nautilus side of this should just work since 3.2 [1] by
passing the file instead of the parent folder in the invocation.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632427

Cosimo