Trigger loading a list of files from Dolphin using "open with"

[George Florea Banus]

On 16.07.2022 00:35, Tobias Leupold wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I'm working on Bug #455074, and I noticed some behavior of Dolphin I wonder if
> it can be changed or worked around.
>
> What happens when I select multiple files in Dolphin and do "open with" is
> that not a list of the selected files is passed to the called program, but one
> instance of the program is opened for each file.
>
> This does not only happen for what I try to implement in KGeoTag, but also
> e.g. for the Gimp (instead of opening a tab for each file, one Gimp instance
> is opened for each file).
>
> So: Can this behavior be changed? Is it possible to send a list of files to a
> program called via "open with"? And can I tell Dolphin to do so via the
> .desktop file or such?
Look up %U on 
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html 


So in the .desktop file change the Exec key to `Exec=kgeotag %U`

> In case of KGeoTag, what I implemented to open files and/or directories using
> command line parameters works fine if it's called via the command line (also
> with wildcards), but not via Dolphin ...
>
> Thanks for all help!
>
> Cheers, Tobias
>
>