Implement DBus org.freedesktop.FileManager1 interface in Mint's file manager(s)

Bug #1439397 reported by Jehan
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Bug Description

Hi,

I'm a GIMP dev. We have recently implemented the DBus interface org.freedesktop.FileManager1 in GIMP (for the upcoming GIMP 2.10 version) as a "File -> Show in File Manager" menu item.

See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/

I've tested it in my Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon.

The expected result should to be open my file manager (so Nemo in my case, I have not tested with other variants of Mint, which may be using other file managers and I have no idea if that would work there or not. This should be tested too), when we click the "Show in File Manager" menu item in GIMP, Nemo should be displaying the contents of the directory of the file being currently edited, and highlight the said file.

Actual result: It does not work. The error returned by DBus: "GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.FileManager1 was not provided by any .service files"

It would be good to implement this standard interface.
Thanks!

Jehan (jehan-marmottard)
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Jehan (jehan-marmottard) wrote :

Additional note: our tests show that it has been implemented in GNOME and KDE already by the way.
Maybe it is also in recent or dev versions of Cinnamon. I have not tested. :-)

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Michael Webster (miketwebster) wrote :

https://xkcd.com/927/

Sorry, couldn't resist :)

I'll have a look at what Gnome folks did - it shouldn't be hard to do this. I'll mention it to the mate devs as well (which uses caja as a file manager.)

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Michael Webster (miketwebster) wrote :

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/2da71b6867518fdb81db74ac1076f9f524d97355

It was there, just broken.

Tested with gimp version 2.9.1.326-0trusty0~ppa

Changed in linuxmint:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Michael Webster (miketwebster) wrote :

caja already supported it, fwiw

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Lester Carballo Pérez (lestcape) wrote :

Mmm... I don't like the idea if nemo will lost the possibility of export the menubar using Dbus...
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/2da71b6867518fdb81db74ac1076f9f524d97355

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Lester Carballo Pérez (lestcape) wrote :

My fault. sorry...

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