How to open windows explorer on selected resource in Eclipse

Question

I was looking for a small plugin for Eclipse that would allow to open windows explorer on currently selected resource from Package Explorer tree.

I know that Aptana

Answer 1

The command configured by default on a Linux platform (dbus-send ...) fails on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7. Changing it to nautilus "${selected_resource_parent_loc}" makes it work. I got this info from this documentation page, which I got from this bug report.

I'm creating an RCP app, and I don't want my users to have to manually change this setting. Using plug-in spy I found the relevant preference store and key. So this non-API call will set the preference programmatically:

    IDEWorkbenchPlugin.getDefault().getPreferenceStore().setValue(IDEInternalPreferences.WORKBENCH_SYSTEM_EXPLORER,
"nautilus \"${selected_resource_parent_loc}\"");

With newer versions of nautilus you can specify ${selected_resource_loc} instead, in which case it opens the parent folder with the specified resource selected. I observed this with nautilus v 3.14, but version 2.28 throws an error is the resource is not a folder.