Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-18 Thread Lukas Lipka
Hey Kevin, I'm sure this works in spatial mode. The file to select is stored in the window_scroll_position property. See below the contents of my ~/.nautilus/metafiles/file:%2F%2F%2Fhome.xml. Best, Lukas On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:23 -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: > A quick look in ~/.nautilus/me

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-12 Thread Kevin Kubasik
A quick look in ~/.nautilus/metafiles revealed that the syntax is quite simple, a basic xml file named like file:%2F%2F%2Fmnt%2Fstorage%2FImportMusic.xml its contents: Now, the only problem is that modification of the file name does not seem to change how nautilus opens when invoked from the c

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-12 Thread D Bera
> Interesting. Ideally though I'd prefer if you just passed a file URI > into nautilus on the command-line and have it highlight the file. If > you do it now, you get the error "Couldn't display . The location > is not a folder." That would make things dead simple. That would make nautilus inc

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-12 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:36 +0200, Lukas Lipka wrote: > I know this is possible since Nautilus stores info about the selected > file in ~/.nautilus/metadata/ and then selects it when you reopen the > window. So this is probably just a matter of adding and hooking up a new > command line option

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-12 Thread Lukas Lipka
Hey, I know this is possible since Nautilus stores info about the selected file in ~/.nautilus/metadata/ and then selects it when you reopen the window. So this is probably just a matter of adding and hooking up a new command line option. I'll have a go at this sometime at the end of the month, s

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-12 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 13:57 -0400, D Bera wrote: > Isnt this more of a nautilus bug (read: enhancement) than a best bug ? > If so, there should be a bug filed for nautilus. Is there already something ? Yeah. Back in the day Dave Camp (one of the Nautilus maintainers) was also hacking on Beag

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-10 Thread D Bera
Isnt this more of a nautilus bug (read: enhancement) than a best bug ? If so, there should be a bug filed for nautilus. Is there already something ? > > The problem is that the file is not highlighted in nautilus. If the > > folders contains many files, this makes it difficult to locate the > > fi

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Maurizio Colucci wrote: The problem is that the file is not highlighted in nautilus. If the folders contains many files, this makes it difficult to locate the file. So difficult as to defeat the purpose of using beagle! It becomes more convenient to add metadata in the filenames, and use gnome-se

Re: "reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-10 Thread Nat Friedman
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 18:41 +0200, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > I understand this is not a Beagle's fault. I guess Nautilus does not > offer an option to open a given folder and highlight a given file. > However, this problem affects Beagle's usability in a crucial way. > What do you think? Had you a

"reveal in file manager" does not highlight the file.

2005-09-10 Thread Maurizio Colucci
Hi there. I noticed beagle has switched to beta state in Ubuntu. Congratulations! I'd like to hear your opinion about this matter. Once Beagle has found the file I need, I may want to execute several actions on the file (e.g. delete it, move it, open it with a secondary viewer). Of course, I am n