[digiKam-users] "Open With" dialog in AppImage: submenu, history, multiple image selection

[Maik Qualmann]

Strange, just tested with their example, the option %F opens a console with 
the images list and %f opens multiple consoles.

Maik

Am Montag, 4. Juni 2018, 22:38:39 CEST schrieb Peter Albrecht:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm testing digiKam AppImage, since it is very nice to have a recent version
> of this application.
> 
> At the moment I am struggling with the "Open With" dialog. I am using
> digiKam AppImage 5.9.0 on Debian Stretch with a KDE desktop.
> 
> In the past I used the "Open With" dialog to call custom shell scripts with
> the currently selected set of images. For that purpose I registered those
> custom shell scripts in KDE with the MIME type "image/jpeg" and in older
> non-AppImage-versions of digiKam (5.3.0), those registered scripts have been
> shown in the "Open With" submenu. This was very handy.
> In digiKam AppImage 5.9.0, there is no "Open With" submenu. Only the context
> menu entry "Open With...". This opens a dialog looking like the dialog
> "Open With" -> "Other..." in digiKam 5.3.0. But this dialog does not show
> any
> applications. See Andrey Goreev's post in September 2017:
> > https://www.flickr.com/gp/goreev/U77103
> > (this is how appimage's open with menu looks like on MATE desktop)
> 
> This is exactly what it looks like in KDE for me, too.
> 
> But I guess it would not be helpful to have all applications (also games and
> music applications) shown in this dialog. I only miss the "Open With"
> submenu, which allowed me to start those few applications registered with
> MIME type "image/jpeg". But I can understand, that this might be very
> difficult, since digiKam is supposed to run on many desktops, not only KDE.
> 
> 
> Thanks to older mailinglist posts, I know, that one can enter an arbitrary
> application in the first input box of this "Open With" dialog. And digiKam
> remembers these.
> So this is my new replacement for the old "Open With" submenu. (not that
> nice, but working)
> 
> On 17 September 2017 Andrey Goreev asked, whether one can edit this list of
> "remembered applications". The answer:
> Those "remembered applications" are stored in the file
> "~/.config/digikamrc". Look for
> 
>   [Open-with settings]
>   ...
>   History=command1,command2,command3
> 
> When digiKam is shutdown, you can edit this textfile with your favorite
> editor and remove commands you don't want to see any more.
> 
> 
> Someone else had the problem that selecting multiple images and clicking
> "Open With" does not start (all images in one application)
> 
>    application image1 image2 image3
> 
> but does start (one application for each image)
> 
>    application image1
>    application image2
>    application image3
> 
> In this case, you can insert "%F" in your command line, which you type in
> the "Open With" dialog. "%F" will be replaced by a list of your selected
> files. And only one instance of your application will be started.
> 
> See
> 
> > https://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-la
> > test.html#exec-variables
> Example:
> 
>    /usr/bin/konsole --noclose -e echo "My selected files" %F
> 
> 
> I hope this might help someone else working with the "Open With" dialog in
> digiKam.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Peter