Created attachment 813885 0001-Bug-417952-Open-Containing-Folder-doesn-t-highlight-.patch
Hi, this patch uses the File Manager DBus Interface[1] to launch file manager and select a file. When this DBus interface is not present, then the current code is used, so to not break backward compatibility. The DBus call to check if the file manager interface is present is only called once, I used a static variable for that. -- A quick note about how I got to this patch, I firstly cooked up a patch that used gio api to find out the handler application of the "inode/directory" mime type, so that returned me the current file manager application, and then I would just call it with the full uri of the downloaded file, but then I realize how painful linux diversity can be.. some file managers when passed a full uri would try to 'run' the file (as was thunar in xfce or konqueror in kde) while others would do the expected behaviour (open folder and select file) only when a specific flag was passed on the command line, so this was a file manager hell but.. fortunately, the DBus file manager interface[1] is the perfect solution to this, defining a common and concrete interface to open and reveal a file in the default file manager, although currently is only implemented by nautilus, it was agreed on FreeDesktop list by kde and xfce too, so when they happen to implement it they will get this nice "open and reveal" behaviour from firefox but in the meantime they will get the current code which just opens the folder. [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager- interface/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129219 Title: firefox download manager - Open containing folder with preselected file in nautilus/file manager Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox After a right click on a downloaded file in the download manager, when you choose "Open containing folder" it just open the file manager Nautilus in the folder of the file. It should select the file in the file manager and scroll the window if necessary like Firefox does in its Win32 version. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/129219/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
