On Friday 05 February 2016 15:54:00 Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > (seems BlackBerry 10 doesn't think anyone would want to send plain-text > Emails, sorry for the previous html screw-up) > > Hi everyone, > > There's a FDO DBus interface [1] to tell a file manager to highlight a given > file in a directory. This is interface is provided by Nautilus and Dolphin > and probably others and used by some third party applications like Firefox, > Gimp iirc. > > We have many places where we want to show the parent folder of a file but > usually just open the containing folder and the user has to search for the > file manually. Given this, I think we should have a method for this in KIO > or KRun or similar that invokes this and/or falls back to the traditional way > of just opening the folder if unavailable. > > Suggestions on where to put it or how to expand on this idea?
The best place for this would actually be QDesktopServices, API wise ;) Just like KToolInvocation::invokeMailer was deprecated in favour of QDesktopServices. But this might require implementation on a number of different OSes, so if you're not planning on doing that, we can think of a KF5 API instead. Within KF5, I have two idea: 1) This could be a static method in KRun, even though it doesn't need the actual KRun class, but we have a number of similar things in there indeed. 2) KToolInvocation (kservice.git, lower in the stack) actually has more specialized API (like invokeTerminal), so API-wise it would be a good place for something like openFileManagerWindow. But KToolInvocation is mostly a client for kdeinit/klauncher, so implementation wise it might be a bit out of place. What's your plan for the implementation btw? Make dbus call (which might autostart the service), and if that fails... KRun::runUrl(directoryUrl, "inode/directory"), I guess? Then it can't be in kservice.git, it has to be in kio. So yeah, KRun::openFileManagerWindow, I suppose. Unless you use an async dbus call to avoid blocking the caller, then it's more of a job like API. If dolphin/nautilus isn't running yet and has to start up, then indeed it might take some time for the call to succeed, so an async call is actually not a bad idea. What do you think about a KIO::OpenFileManagerWindowJob : public KJob, encapsulating an async dbus call? -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
