Open Folder and select file

[Emmanuel Pescosta]

Hi,

there is a dbus interface (see ShowItems method in [1]) which does exactly
what you want,
at least on platforms with dbus.

But Kai is already working on a nice job API (see [2]) which can do this in
a cross-platform way. :)

Cheers,
Emmanuel

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/
[2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127004/

2016-03-19 21:16 GMT+01:00 Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org>:

> Hi,
>
> in Kate's tab bar I would like to implement a context menu action
> "Open Containing Folder". In KDE, this should open dolphin and
> preselect the specific file. On Windows, it should open the Explorer
> and do the same.
>
> It seems Qt Creator has some code to do exactly this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3490336
>
> Do we have that already in KDE somewhere?
>
> Please note, I don't want to *open* the file itself, instead, I want
> to open the file browser, and highlight the respective file.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominik
>
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