Recent Documents needs 'open containing folder' option

[Nanley Chery]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Scenario:
Jane saved her recently editited monkey.png in a folder. She forgets where the folder is and wants to find the image and other animal pictures that are in that folder. She goes to Places->Recent Documents->monkey.png and discovers she can only open the file. She cannot locate her special animals folder and is disheartened.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502179 ; thanks.

[Luke Symes (allsymes)]

In the 'Places' menu it makes sense to be able to open the containing folder of your recent documents. This is where a right-click context menu would come in handy:

Open with "Text Editor"
Open With...
Open containing folder
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or:

Open with "Text Editor"
Open With..
Show in File Browser
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[Luke Symes (allsymes)]

Not that it makes any difference, but the upstream bug is soon going to be 7 years old.
I'm not sure this qualifies as a Papercut bug, it would be a new feature... although it would be a boon to functionality & usability if fixed.

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Can someone explain the proposed solution? Nanley, can you please provide mockups so we are all on the same page about what you are proposing?

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

The upstream bug can be found on the right sidebar.
Soliac's first comment pretty much sums it up without words.
Nonetheless, I've attached a mockup of the context menu that the Recent Documents list should have.

[Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu)]

A first patch is posted upstream. If you're a developer, you are more than welcome to take a look at it and help me hide the main menu after you've selected an item from the context menu ;-)

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Has anyone had a chance to review the patch that's currently sitting upstream?

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

Marked as invalid following comments and wont fix upstream due to changes in gtk3.