"selecting a file when opening a folder" feature would be nice

[Elliott Hughes]

Binary package hint: nautilus

problem:

running "nautilus --no-desktop /etc/passwd" tells me "the location is not a folder". i know this. what i want is for nautilus to show me "/etc/" with the file "passwd" selected.

prior art:

Windows' Explorer offers this with "explorer /select,c:\etc\passwd.txt" and Mac OS also offers it via AppleEvents (i.e. osascript(1) on the command line).

motivation:

Firefox (and other browsers) on Mac OS and Windows are able to take me from their Downloads window directly to the file in question in the system's native file browser. Firefox on GNOME can't do this, and just takes me to the directory and leaves me to search manually.

my terminal emulator (http://software.jessies.org/terminator/) we log every terminal the user creates. the info dialog lets you see the filename, but on Mac OS and Windows it also has a handy button that takes you to the file in question so you can delete it, copy it, open it in a text editor, mail it to someone. we're unable to implement this on GNOME, which makes the GNOME user experience much worse than the other platforms.

thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339565