Common call for launching file browser

[Derek Broughton]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>  said:
>> Charlie, you _know_ this is Linux - we can do anything!
>> 
>> As long as you can identify the desktop, it can't be that difficult
>> (as xdg-open shows) to invoked the appropriate application for the
>> desktop - or it could be done through the "alternatives" system.
> 
> As for xdg-open, it seems to me that it only opens a file with the
> preferred application or a URL with the preferred browser.  Am I missing
> something?  If it /does/ open a file manager I haven't been able to do
> it.

In KDE it opens a "file" _with_ the file manager ("kfmclient").  It doesn't
leave you _in_ the file manager, because that isn't what you asked it to
do.  However, if you ask it to open a directory ("xdg-open ~"), then sure
enough you get a file browser.  Perhaps you can't do that in Gnome :-(
-- 
derek