Comment 18 for bug 1168858

xdg-open is the tool used in linux to open the default application but how can it be used by user/scripts/applications (without an api) if it doesn't behave as expected with nautilus? Following on from that if you then set the env var (as per my xdg-open change) in scripts then we have gone full circle and those scripts will then steal focus.

Why does it matter if gnome-open knows which event as long as a correct timestamp is issued if no timestamp has been set? If it is possible to modify gnome-open to correctly set a timestamp that seems like a good solution and it does mention in the gtk api that the timestamp is only ideally from the event so it's not a requirement.