open file in directory action

[Vincent Gerris]

Thank you Hans for making things clearer (I changed to text mode :) ).
Thank you Aleksei for the link.
Good to know that this has already been discussed.
As far as I can tell, adding this --select option to xdg-open seems
like a very wishfull thing to have.
>From a user point of view, I would not know a use case for selecting
multiple files, but that might be my limited view on the matter.
I don't know if every Linux distribution has D-bus, but from my
limited point of view it makes more sense to implement it by using the
file manager,
it makes it a bit less dependant on other components, right?

Kind regards,
Vincent

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 04/21/2013 10:54 PM, Aleksei Lissitsin wrote:
>>
>> Please also see this post
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-September/012060.html
>> and subsequent discussion on the issue.
>
>
> Thanks for pointing out that thread!
>
> That threads talks about a d-bus interface, which seems unnatural
> to me, since for all other kind of open actions, we use mime-types ->
> application logic. As discussed in that thread, the dbus interface
> idea adds nothing that allows the user to specify which file-manager
> he wants to use (similar to how the user can select a preferred browser
> and a preferred mail client).
>
> To me the d-bus interface feels like look we've got this hammer called
> d-bus, and that looks like it might be a nail, so lets hammer it.
>
> Besides that d-bus does not seem to be the right tool for this, and
> does not allow a user to easily choose between multiple implementations
> of the same interface, it seems that the thread you reference also never
> reached any sort of conclusion.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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