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

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

--- Comment #2 from Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com> ---
So now it's 4 years later and both Dolphin and Nautilus definitely support the
ability to select a file in a folder:

nautilus -s /path/to/selected_file
dolphin --select /path/to/selected_file

Can we implement the feature in xdg-open? xdg-open can either:

a) Check the underlying tool's version number to make sure it supports
selection, and fail with a particular error code if the underlying tool does
not. Then the caller can decide on falling back or not.

b) Just attempt to run the underlying tool and see what happens. If the
underlying tool reports an error, pass that back up to the caller.

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