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# File Manager DBus Interface
Applications sometimes need to interact with the desktop's file manager. This page documents a simple DBus interface that can be used for that purpose.
<interface name='org.freedesktop.FileManager1'>
<method name='ShowFolders'>
<arg type='as' name='URIs' direction='in'/>
<arg type='s' name='StartupId' direction='in'/>
</method>
<method name='ShowItems'>
<arg type='as' name='URIs' direction='in'/>
<arg type='s' name='StartupId' direction='in'/>
</method>
<method name='ShowItemProperties'>
<arg type='as' name='URIs' direction='in'/>
<arg type='s' name='StartupId' direction='in'/>
</method>
</interface>
These three methods take an array of URI strings, and a startup id as specified by the startup notification specification.
* `ShowFolders` assumes that the specified URIs are folders; the file manager is supposed to show a window with the contents of each folder. Calling this method with `file:///etc` as the single element in the array of URIs will cause the file manager to show the contents of /etc as if the user had navigated to it. The behavior for more than one element is left up to the implementation; commonly, multiple windows will be shown, one for each folder.
* `ShowItems` doesn't make any assumptions as to the type of the URIs. The file manager is supposed to select the passed items within their respective parent folders. Calling this method on `file:///etc` as the single element in the array of URIs will cause the file manager to show a file listing for "/", with "etc" highlighted. The behavior for more than one element is left up to the implementation.
* `ShowItemProperties` should cause the file manager to show a "properties" window for the specified URIs. For local Unix files, these properties can be the file permissions, icon used for the files, and other metadata.
# Activation
Applications are supposed to use the `org.freedesktop.FileManager1` DBus name and the `/org/freedesktop/FileManager1` object path. The interface name is `org.freedesktop.FileManager1`.
# Implementations
This interface is implmented in the following environments:
* Nautilus 3.4 and later.
* Dolphin 15.08 and later
# References
* [[Discussion in xdg-list|http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-May/011949.html]]
* [[Gnome bugzilla entry for Nautilus's implementation|https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636269]]
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