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Bug 20620

Summary:	[GlobalActions] Support Right Click on Directory and allow opening a window
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Joseph Molnar <josephmolnar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	remy.suen, Tod_Creasey
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Joseph Molnar

2002-06-19 02:13:56 EDT

So, for example, I can right click and then there is an option to open a 
window. There are two types of windows it would be great if it supported 
opening:

a) a terminal/command prompt window
b) an explorer/file managuing GUI window

Otherwise I tend to need either opening a window and browsing there or 'cd'ing 
there.

Comment 1 Eduardo Pereira

2002-08-07 12:33:21 EDT

*** Bug 20702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Simon Arsenault

2002-09-05 12:06:49 EDT

Someone from the community could provide a plugin to contribute these two 
actions to the context menu for IFolder.

Comment 3 Tod Creasey

2006-06-22 08:34:26 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature

Comment 4 Remy Suen

2007-07-03 21:55:25 EDT

In Windows I know that you can use the Program class's launch method and just do something like...

URI uri = resource.getLocationURI();
Program.launch(uri.toString());

...and Windows Explorer will appear. I'm guessing this won't work on other operating systems since they'll probably try to execute the folder in question?