<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style> body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"; color:#262626 }</style> </head> <body lang="de-DE"><div>Hi everyone, </div><div><br></div><div>There's a FDO DBus interface [1] to tell a file manager to highlight a given file in a directory. <span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">This is interface is provided by Nautilus and Dolphin and probably others and used by some third party applications like Firefox, Gimp iirc.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">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.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"> 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. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Suggestions on where to put it or how to expand on this idea?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Cheers, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Kai Uwe</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div></body></html>