Hi there,
When you try to navigate to a file in Mac OSX Finder, the program opens the containing folder and selects the file. In dolphin with KDE 4.13.3, you get a dolphin window that shows you're in a folder with the name of the file and then the registered handler for that file gets called. Is is possible to implement this functionality or there's something in the bigger picture that prevents it or advises against it?

Thanks!

You haven't told us how you try to open the file with Dolphin - I assume that you start Dolphin from the command line and pass the file name as a parameter? Maybe

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dolphin --select /path/to/file

is what you want?

If you are looking to use this in a script or similar, then you might want to look into the following utility, which is included in kde-runtime.

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kdialog

Thank you both for your answers, I didn't know about the

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--select

flag. I have a script, based on KDialog that converts files and in the end I want to be able to select them in the file manager. Tried with

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dolphin <filename>

but that produced the behavior that I've described in the first post.

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--select

works perfectly for my needs, thanks!