[Portland-bugs] [Bug 49552] New: xdg-open should support selecting/highlighting a file/folder

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49552

             Bug #: 49552
           Summary: xdg-open should support selecting/highlighting a
                    file/folder
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: calumlind at gmail.com


Users have asked for highlighting a selected torrent file/folder in Downloads
when using Deluge and I found that xdg-open does not support such an option.
Searching around I also found Chromium[1] and other applications are affected
so it is needing solved somehow.

On OSX there is a -R option for open which reveals the file/folder in Finder
instead of opening and on Windows a '/select,' option exists for explorer.exe

Nautilus now supports such an option if you pass just a filename, although not
folders, but it is a starting point and apparently Dolphin has a '--select'
option.


[1]http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=35499

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