Common call for launching file browser

[Derek Broughton]

Victor Padro wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Derek Broughton
> <derek at pointerstop.ca>wrote:
> 

>> 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 :-(
> 
> can someone using KDE(kubuntu) could do this on the konsole:
> youruser at yourmachine:/# konqueror /home/username (or any other directory)
> maybe it works.

Of course it works.  _Why_ would I do that?  It forces a _new_ konqueror,
when I expect everything to open in the same window.  It doesn't honor my
session settings.  It's just an all-round bad way to start a konqueror
session.  xdg-open uses kfmclient, because that's the correct way to start
the file manager in KDE (and Dotan, I think it's still the way in Intrepid,
whether you're using Dolphin or Konqueror as your file manager).
-- 
derek