Bad experience with "Open with"

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I usually select several pictures from a Digikam album and right-click to open them in Darktable. However, this evening, I released the mouse button at the wrong place and Digikam tried to launch 30 new instances (one per selected picture)... To make it short, I got I don't know how many "Impossible de créer des tables dans la base de données" messages, my system got completely stuck and it took me ages to close each Digikam window, and relaunch everything properly.

Questions:

 - wouldn't it be possible to deactivate the "Open with Digikam" in Digikam?

 - why is Digikam launching an instance for each picture (fortunately I had only selected 30...); when I use "Open with Darktable" all the pictures open in the same Darktable instance, whether it is running yet or not.

Thanks for your answer,
Marie-Noëlle

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2015-04-25 21:36 GMT+02:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

I usually select several pictures from a Digikam album and right-click to open them in Darktable. However, this evening, I released the mouse button at the wrong place and Digikam tried to launch 30 new instances (one per selected picture)... To make it short, I got I don't know how many "Impossible de créer des tables dans la base de données" messages, my system got completely stuck and it took me ages to close each Digikam window, and relaunch everything properly.

Questions:

 - wouldn't it be possible to deactivate the "Open with Digikam" in Digikam?

Not directly in settings.

 

 - why is Digikam launching an instance for each picture (fortunately I had only selected 30...); when I use "Open with Darktable" all the pictures open in the same Darktable instance, whether it is running yet or not.

It ask to KDE desktop settings which top application is assigned to type mime to open (RAW file in this case).

digiKam pass the list of files to open to the application.

To solve the problem : the settings is certainly wrong into desktop to open more than one file to Darktable. An opion is perhaps missing to get the instance of application to open all files.

Gilles Caulier

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2015-04-25 22:48 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

2015-04-25 21:36 GMT+02:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

I usually select several pictures from a Digikam album and right-click to open them in Darktable. However, this evening, I released the mouse button at the wrong place and Digikam tried to launch 30 new instances (one per selected picture)... To make it short, I got I don't know how many "Impossible de créer des tables dans la base de données" messages, my system got completely stuck and it took me ages to close each Digikam window, and relaunch everything properly.

Questions:

 - wouldn't it be possible to deactivate the "Open with Digikam" in Digikam?

Not directly in settings.

Is there some logic to allow opening a picture with Digikam when you already are in Digikam?

 

 

 - why is Digikam launching an instance for each picture (fortunately I had only selected 30...); when I use "Open with Darktable" all the pictures open in the same Darktable instance, whether it is running yet or not.

It ask to KDE desktop settings which top application is assigned to type mime to open (RAW file in this case).

Is it possible to remove Digikam from this KDE settings? And will it change anything "inside" Digikam if I do so.

 

digiKam pass the list of files to open to the application.

To solve the problem : the settings is certainly wrong into desktop to open more than one file to Darktable. An opion is perhaps missing to get the instance of application to open all files.

It is OK to open several files at once, provided each application does it its own (right) way:

 - for Gimp, Showfoto, etc. that don't include a file manager, one instance per file is fine

 - for Darktable, the current behaviour is fine too: the application is launched only if there is no running instance, and pictures are imported if they are not yet in the application database.

 - for Digikam, it doesn't work as one instance is launched for every picture selected, all of them intending to use the same collections/database as the original and that simply cannot work; more over when the opening is requested from inside Digikam! That's why I would like to prevent this happening some other time.

Marie-Noëlle

 

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Le 26/04/2015 08:39, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :

>     It ask to KDE desktop settings which top application is assigned to
>     type mime to open (RAW file in this case).

sure: right click on the file in dolphin, properties,options of the
file... Opening a file directly

but what distribution do you use, in openSUSE 13.2 I don't see any
"digikam" in the open with menu (I have for showfoto)

>   - for Gimp, Showfoto, etc. that don't include a file manager, one
> instance per file is fine

it's not, I had the same odd situation you had, but with gimp :-). If
you can open only one file, open the first only (or ask)

jdd

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2015-04-26 8:58 GMT+02:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 26/04/2015 08:39, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :

    It ask to KDE desktop settings which top application is assigned to
    type mime to open (RAW file in this case).

sure: right click on the file in dolphin, properties,options of the file... Opening a file directly

but what distribution do you use, in openSUSE 13.2 I don't see any "digikam" in the open with menu (I have for showfoto)

Fedora 21.

I even had Kate and "Wine application", that I just remove from the KDE settings!

I'd rather leave Digikam in the KDE settings so I could open RAW from the file manager (not that I do this often)... or should that be the Gnome settings as I use Cinnamon as a desktop?

 

  - for Gimp, Showfoto, etc. that don't include a file manager, one
instance per file is fine

it's not, I had the same odd situation you had, but with gimp :-). If you can open only one file, open the first only (or ask)

For Darktable, it's part of my usual workflow: I select a whole batch a pictures in Digikam then import/open them in Darktable in one pass so I can edit them before exporting TIFF back to Digikam albums.

I don't use Gimp often on pictures, but if do it'll be most often to make some "montage" with several pictures; and in that case, I'rather want them to be opened in one go. But Gimp different instances are independant.

That's different for Digikam because all the running instances want to access the same database, and the whole system get stuck.

Marie-Noëlle

 

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