[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: How to launch an external file browser?

["Grant Gayed" <grant_gayed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I didn't know that launch()ing a directory on win32 would open a file
browser, but I would not expect this to also happen on Linux.  I think the
only way to do this there would be to know the name of the machine's file
browser app to launch(), but this name could vary from one distro to
another, so I don't think there's a nice way to do this.

I'm guessing you want to do this so that a user can easily do some file
operations on files in a specific dir?  The FileDialog on win32 allows a
user to do any file operation that's available in the external file browser,
but unfortunately this isn't the case on the other platforms.

Grant


"phil" <p.converset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:c09359c08c91d0ba91cc9f5c750722c3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to launch a file browser on a specific directory from an RCP
> application on Ubuntu. The easiest way on Windows Platform is to call
> Program.launch(path), but this won't work on Ubuntu, any idea?
>