Open external tool with set of filenames

[Donald Hobern]

Thanks, Maik.

That explains what I need to investigate. I'm on Ubuntu and hacked my own
.desktop for Zerene Stacker since the installation is just via a downloaded
Java application in a zip. I've tried adding %U to my .desktop file in
/usr/share/applications but that hasn't fixed it. I'll dig deeper, but I
was looking in completely the wrong place.

Best wishes,

Donald

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On Sun, 29 Sept 2024 at 17:37, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> What platform do you use digiKam on?
>
> Normally digiKam starts the programs in the "Open with..." menu controlled
> by
> the corresponding *.desktop file. There is a parameter for how files are
> passed
> to the executable file, e.g. %u, %U, %f or %F. The case determines whether
> the
> files are passed as a list or whether new instances are started. Lowercase
> means new instances.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Sonntag, 29. September 2024, 02:46:53 MESZ schrieb Donald Hobern:
> > I'd like to be able to execute Zerene Stacker (image stacking software,
> ZS)
> > using a set of input images selected from an album in Thumbnails view. ZS
> > accepts multiple filenames from the command line and uses them to create
> a
> > new image stacking project.
> >
> > If I select multiple thumbnails, right click and use Open With to launch
> > ZS, each image is opened in a separate instance of ZS.
> >
> > Is there an established way to pass a set of image filenames from Digikam
> > as part of the command line for an external tool?
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers.
> >
> > Donald
>
>
>
>
>
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