Comments on: How to add applications to Digikam’s “open with” menu http://www.redrowstudio.com/2009/02/23/how-to-add-applications-to-digikams-open-with-menu/ photography & stuff Fri, 07 May 2010 19:14:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mym http://www.redrowstudio.com/2009/02/23/how-to-add-applications-to-digikams-open-with-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-1641 mym Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:32:51 +0000 http://www.redrowstudio.com/?p=14#comment-1641 Hello, Thanks for tip! I wanted to open JPG files within DigiKam, and the "Filename Patterns" for image/jpeg files was only ".jfif", so I just added ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".JPG", ".JPEG" and the empty "open with" menu magically filled up with all the applications I needed (including Gimp). Config: Ubuntu Jaunty 64 + Digikam Hello,
Thanks for tip!
I wanted to open JPG files within DigiKam, and the “Filename Patterns” for image/jpeg files was only “.jfif”, so I just added “.jpg”, “.jpeg”, “.JPG”, “.JPEG” and the empty “open with” menu magically filled up with all the applications I needed (including Gimp).
Config: Ubuntu Jaunty 64 + Digikam

]]> By: admin http://www.redrowstudio.com/2009/02/23/how-to-add-applications-to-digikams-open-with-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-26 admin Sun, 03 May 2009 07:16:04 +0000 http://www.redrowstudio.com/?p=14#comment-26 Doc, I'm actually getting the same behaviour using 0.10 - maybe something changed between the rc and the release versions. I'll put up a post if I find a workaround. Have you tried the new release preview of Bibble 5? I've only had a quick look at it, but it looks like it might have enough DAM ability to replace digikam for me (while still not doing quite exactly what I want - it refuses to write metadata to the raw files themselves). I highly recommend you take a look if you haven't done so - it's also much quicker and more stable (for me at least; I know that other people have reported trouble). Doc,

I’m actually getting the same behaviour using 0.10 – maybe something changed between the rc and the release versions. I’ll put up a post if I find a workaround. Have you tried the new release preview of Bibble 5? I’ve only had a quick look at it, but it looks like it might have enough DAM ability to replace digikam for me (while still not doing quite exactly what I want – it refuses to write metadata to the raw files themselves). I highly recommend you take a look if you haven’t done so – it’s also much quicker and more stable (for me at least; I know that other people have reported trouble).

]]> By: Doc http://www.redrowstudio.com/2009/02/23/how-to-add-applications-to-digikams-open-with-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Doc Sun, 03 May 2009 04:24:06 +0000 http://www.redrowstudio.com/?p=14#comment-25 Well, it does add BibblePro to the right click "open with" menu, but although it does open Bibble it doesn't focus on the selected image but at the fist image of the last opened folder within Bibble. I don't know if this just happening to me. I running Gnome 2.24.2 Digikam is great as a DAM, and also has good image editing tools but it lacks of the "Persistent Options" of Bibble (or other RAW processing programs as Photoshop). You can't just tweak your RAWs without have them to be exported to png or other format to save the changes, or return to the RAW to see what tweaks you have applied. Bibble sucks at DAM, but love the pluggins and the "persistent options" feature. Well, it does add BibblePro to the right click “open with” menu, but although it does open Bibble it doesn’t focus on the selected image but at the fist image of the last opened folder within Bibble. I don’t know if this just happening to me.
I running Gnome 2.24.2

Digikam is great as a DAM, and also has good image editing tools but it lacks of the “Persistent Options” of Bibble (or other RAW processing programs as Photoshop). You can’t just tweak your RAWs without have them to be exported to png or other format to save the changes, or return to the RAW to see what tweaks you have applied.

Bibble sucks at DAM, but love the pluggins and the “persistent options” feature.

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