[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 12273] New: Add --select argument for opening path, which selects/highlights the last item in path instead of open in default app

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12273

            Bug ID: 12273
           Summary: Add --select argument for opening path, which
                    selects/highlights the last item in path instead of
                    open in default app
    Classification: Xfce
           Product: Thunar
           Version: 1.6.10
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Medium
         Component: general
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: D33rDanc3 at gmail.com
        QA Contact: nick at xfce.org
                CC: benny at xfce.org, hjudt at xfce.org

current behaviour when you execute:
thunar ~/Pictures/icon.png

Is that it goes looking for the default application for the file and opens the
file in that application.
There is no way to simple tell Thunar to just go to that directory, and select
the file.

Nemo, Nautilus, DoubleCommander support this natively, Dolphin has --select
parameter that makes this work.

It would be useful for 3rd party applications that want to point to a
file/folder to have a way to do this.

You can just go to the parent directory when you detect thunar, but in cases of
a folder with 300 files the benefit of highlighting the file would be obvious
immediately.

I dont think changing default behavior is worth the trouble but adding --select
argument to path that acts similar to how dolphin does it...  open the path
containing the last item in the path, select / highlight the specified item

discussion has been going on it in here:
forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=38284

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