[Bug 57537] "nautilus --no-desktop /etc/passwd" doesn't work

[Elliott Hughes]

Public bug reported:

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!

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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"nautilus --no-desktop /etc/passwd" doesn't work
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57537