Can you implement method "ShowItems" from specification of Freedesktop File Manager DBus Interface: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/ ) ? That method is the one which Firefox uses to highlight files when using the "Open containing folder" action. Thunar now only opens directory, and normal behavior is to open directory and selected/highlight chosen file.
Yes, this is currently working in Nautilus, which implements the aforementioned dbus spec method. Firefox started using this dbus method for its "Open containing folder" action from Firefox 28 onwards, relevant firefox bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417952 .
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Hi, +1 to this. It is a good standard and I think it would be easy to add. Firefox lately made several interesting changes for xfce. (Deign to stop using gnome-vfs and gconf..), So never again more open audacious when we want to open a folder, and nor open a docx with mousepad. haha. Commits: * https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/746235eb65a804382d00ce13f1b5a68e73f4c193 * https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/c90cdd2eef8bdc61ebdb9cfc34c27c9256aed4a7 We will see these changes in Firefox 38 However, with these changes of firefox can open folders fine in thunar but not select the files, that would work if we implement this interface. =)
Hi, +1 also from me for this. I would appreciate to have this feature in Thunar. Actually I use Caja from the Mate-Project as default file manager in Xubuntu 15.04, because it has this really necessary feature. But I would prefer to use Thunar in Xfce.
This feature direly needed!
just got fixed in BUg #12414 Will be released in thunar 1.8.3 soon *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12414 ***