Common call for launching file browser

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I work in a team (windows and linux) which develop programs using Qt for
> both systems. One of the windows team has created a functionality which
> opens the file browser (explorer) to browse through files. She uses
>
> explorer c:\mydir
>
> What is a linux equivalent for doing a similar thing that will work in both
> KDE and GNOME (and perhaps also XFCE or other window managers)?

Try xdg-open

see http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ for more info.  I don't know
how widely adopted this is currently

(in other words, I know it works on Gnome - I'll leave the testing of
the others to you :-)

Brian