Default File Manager

[Aleksei Lissitsin]

See this thread:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-September/012060.html


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 de November de 2011 21.23.26, Sander Jansen wrote:
>> > I don't think there's any way to show a directory with a specific file
>> > selected. Maybe we could standardise on using the URL fragment for that
>> > purpose, e.g.:
>> >
>> >        xdg-open file:///home/thiago/#valgrind.supp
>> >
>> > This URL above works right now, except it won't pre-select valgrind.supp.
>>
>> That should only work if the input is an url. It shouldn't do the same
>> if file:/// is left out.
>
> That depends on the implementation. Does it treat a string with no scheme as a
> relative file path or a relative URI reference? They are not the same and are
> not interpreted the same. The --help output says:
>
> Synopsis
>
>   xdg-open { file | URL }
>
> It doesn't specify what type of URL it accepts, but common sense would dictate
> that it accepts only absolute URLs. Any relative strings are interpreted as
> file paths, not as relative URL references.
>
> In any case, the ambiguity is completely resolved by passing a full and
> absolute URL.
>
>> A basic show-this-file in the browser would
>> be nice to have. I guess for more elaborate file operations a "file
>> manager dbus interface" will be better. Which gets us back to the
>> problem on how do determine what file manager to start in cross
>> desktop neutral way. It would be nice if we didn't need to use any of
>> the native tools (exo-open,gvfs-open) and just rely on the
>> inode/directory mimetype in the mimecache.
>
> I still wonder what your use-case is. Why do you need the file manager to open
> up with a specific entry selected? What other operations do you have in mind?
>
> In most cases when people ask how to determine an application, they don't
> actually need to know the application. They just need the system to perform
> some operation and xdg-open already solves most of those problems.
>
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