<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The intelligent and fast search algorithms in both GNOME Shell and Unity's "Dash" make both UIs much better candidates for focusing a single item and providing details as well as interaction options for it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">A</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">n alternative POV, considering that most of the discussion here seems to be based on the assumption that a classical file-manager will do the job.</span></div>
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As Federico Mena already suggests in "<a href="http://live.gnome.org/DocumentCentricGnome/Circulation%20for%20your%20files">Circulation for your files</a>", context information about the to-be-focused item is useful, yet classical file managers do not do this well, since they have no apparent visual way to create an obvious contrast of a focused item against its relational "background" (except the ordinary "select" highlight)</div>
</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">This is much easier to achieve in a minimalistic UI with a symbolic d-bus api, such as Dash or "Shell" if i'm correct.</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 19:53, Thiago Macieira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thiago@kde.org">thiago@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thursday, 22 de September de 2011 19:51:31 Aleksei Lissitsin wrote:<br>
> This could be a nice approach. The D-Bus service file for FileManager1<br>
> could then just (be installed by and) call xdg-open to start the right<br>
> file manager if none is running.<br>
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</div>D-Bus requires that the process it starts claim the name. If this process<br>
exits before the name is claimed, the message will return to sender.</blockquote></div>