Common call for launching file browser

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:30:20 +0100
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)?
> 
> Tx/ALain
> 

I do not know that there can be a single linux equivalent. Windows is a
single operating system that uses "explorer.exe" as a file manager.
Linux is a very wide range of operating systems all based on the kernel
written by Linus.

"thunar" is the file manager for Xfce, "nautilus" is the file manager
used by gnome, etc. You don't have these choices of file managers in
windows. It is "explorer" because there is no other.

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