Default File Manager

Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagomatos at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 09:01:00 PST 2011


On 30 November 2011 15:07, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> If the issue you have is simply selecting one file, then I recommend to start
> using now the # marker, along with an absolute URL. It should work everywhere
> already and require no changes for backwards compatibility.
>
> Then just request the file managers implement the selection feature.

FWIW, nautilus >= 3.0 actually supports opening a directory with a
file selected by simply calling

$ nautilus /directory/path/file

That will open a nautilus window on /directory/path with 'file' selected.

Rui


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