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

[Tobias Leupold]

That's it. Thanks a lot :-)

Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2022, 23:50:40 CEST schrieb J Blackquill:
> Hi, this is controlled by the KIO::ApplicationLauncherJob.
> It asks KService whether it can launch one instance or if it needs to
> do n instances, and this is the code that KService uses for that:
> 
> bool KService::allowMultipleFiles() const
> {
>    Q_D(const KService);
>    // Can we pass multiple files on the command line or do we have to
> start the application for every single file ?
>    return (d->m_strExec.contains(QLatin1String("%F")) //
> 
>            || d->m_strExec.contains(QLatin1String("%U")) //
>            || d->m_strExec.contains(QLatin1String("%N")) //
>            || d->m_strExec.contains(QLatin1String("%D")));
> 
> }
> 
> In short, you should be using the standard XDG thing that says you can
> take multiple URLs on launch in your .desktop file (%U in the Exec
> key).
> 
> Cheers, Janet
> 
> Am Fr., 15. Juli 2022 um 17:35 Uhr schrieb Tobias Leupold <tl at stonemx.de>:
> > 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?
> > 
> > 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