[digiKam-users] [digiKam] Feature Request: Preselect Item, Open in File Filemanger

[Tac Tacelosky]

If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.  Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.  

Is the mailing list the best place to post features requests?  Or github?  Or...?

Thanks!

Tac

[AndriusWild]

There is such feature request in bugzilla already.

On Linux with KDE there is workaround using dolphin --select option. Create a shell script, add it to the open with menu and then right click on file - open with - your_script

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Date: 2018-02-22 10:49 AM (GMT-07:00)

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Subject: [digiKam-users] [digiKam] Feature Request: Preselect Item, Open in File Filemanger

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If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.  Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.  

Is the mailing list the best place to post features requests?  Or github?  Or...?

Thanks!

Tac

[Remco Viëtor]

On jeudi 22 février 2018 18:49:22 CET Tac Tacelosky wrote:
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love
> to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.
> Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.

You can already do that in digikam for operations within the managed
collections. This has the advantage that digikam can keep its database up to
date with a minimum of operations.

If you do such operations through a file manager, digikam has to watch changes
in the filesystems it uses and adjust its database accordingly. For moving a
file through an external file manager, that means a full 'delete', and a full
'add' for each move. More complicated, and more risk of database corruption.

Also, if you use sidecars, when doing file operations through the file manager,
*you* take responsability for handling the sidecars correctly. When moving
files around within digikam, handling sidecars is (or at least should be) the
responsability of digikam.

Remco

[Tac Tacelosky]

@Audry: Thanks!  I wasn't familiar with Dolphin, but because it has a command line interface, it does seem to be working better.  It appears that when multiple files are selected, it calls the "Open With" script multiple times, rather than passing all of them on the command line.  I can see use cases for both situations.  Really I'm trying to use the script as a plugin or queue manager. But going down this path is helping enormously, thanks for the suggestion.

@Remco: Agreed.  All of this is because oAuth isn't working for me (digiKam 5.8.0, Ubuntu 17.10).  So there are all hacks to get around that. 

Tac

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

On jeudi 22 février 2018 18:49:22 CET Tac Tacelosky wrote:
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love
> to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.
> Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.

You can already do that in digikam for operations within the managed
collections. This has the advantage that digikam can keep its database up to
date with a minimum of operations.

If you do such operations through a file manager, digikam has to watch changes
in the filesystems it uses and adjust its database accordingly. For moving a
file through an external file manager, that means a full 'delete', and a full
'add' for each move. More complicated, and more risk of database corruption.

Also, if you use sidecars, when doing file operations through the file manager,
*you* take responsability for handling the sidecars correctly. When moving
files around within digikam, handling sidecars is (or at least should be) the
responsability of digikam.

Remco

[AndriusWild]

Dolphin ---select %U should pass all selected files as arguments. I will confirm later when I am back in the office

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Tac Tacelosky <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-23 8:34 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] [digiKam] Feature Request: Preselect Item, Open in File Filemanger

@Audry: Thanks!  I wasn't familiar with Dolphin, but because it has a command line interface, it does seem to be working better.  It appears that when multiple files are selected, it calls the "Open With" script multiple times, rather than passing all of them on the command line.  I can see use cases for both situations.  Really I'm trying to use the script as a plugin or queue manager. But going down this path is helping enormously, thanks for the suggestion.

@Remco: Agreed.  All of this is because oAuth isn't working for me (digiKam 5.8.0, Ubuntu 17.10).  So there are all hacks to get around that. 

Tac

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

On jeudi 22 février 2018 18:49:22 CET Tac Tacelosky wrote:
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love
> to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.
> Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.

You can already do that in digikam for operations within the managed
collections. This has the advantage that digikam can keep its database up to
date with a minimum of operations.

If you do such operations through a file manager, digikam has to watch changes
in the filesystems it uses and adjust its database accordingly. For moving a
file through an external file manager, that means a full 'delete', and a full
'add' for each move. More complicated, and more risk of database corruption.

Also, if you use sidecars, when doing file operations through the file manager,
*you* take responsability for handling the sidecars correctly. When moving
files around within digikam, handling sidecars is (or at least should be) the
responsability of digikam.

Remco

[Tac Tacelosky]

Thanks.  I used "$@" in a bash script, but I think digiKam loops through and sends them one at a time.  

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dolphin ---select %U should pass all selected files as arguments. I will confirm later when I am back in the office

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Tac Tacelosky <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-23 8:34 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] [digiKam] Feature Request: Preselect Item, Open in File Filemanger

@Audry: Thanks!  I wasn't familiar with Dolphin, but because it has a command line interface, it does seem to be working better.  It appears that when multiple files are selected, it calls the "Open With" script multiple times, rather than passing all of them on the command line.  I can see use cases for both situations.  Really I'm trying to use the script as a plugin or queue manager. But going down this path is helping enormously, thanks for the suggestion.

@Remco: Agreed.  All of this is because oAuth isn't working for me (digiKam 5.8.0, Ubuntu 17.10).  So there are all hacks to get around that. 

Tac

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

On jeudi 22 février 2018 18:49:22 CET Tac Tacelosky wrote:
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love
> to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.
> Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.

You can already do that in digikam for operations within the managed
collections. This has the advantage that digikam can keep its database up to
date with a minimum of operations.

If you do such operations through a file manager, digikam has to watch changes
in the filesystems it uses and adjust its database accordingly. For moving a
file through an external file manager, that means a full 'delete', and a full
'add' for each move. More complicated, and more risk of database corruption.

Also, if you use sidecars, when doing file operations through the file manager,
*you* take responsability for handling the sidecars correctly. When moving
files around within digikam, handling sidecars is (or at least should be) the
responsability of digikam.

Remco

[AndriusWild]

right click in digikam - open with - others - type in "dolphin --select %U" works. I just tested it.

There is an option to save it for the file type which will create a .desktop file in /home/user/.local/share/application

You can then edit the file to rename the action, add more file types, add an icon, etc.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Tac Tacelosky <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks.  I used "$@" in a bash script, but I think digiKam loops through and sends them one at a time.  

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dolphin ---select %U should pass all selected files as arguments. I will confirm later when I am back in the office

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Tac Tacelosky <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-23 8:34 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] [digiKam] Feature Request: Preselect Item, Open in File Filemanger

@Audry: Thanks!  I wasn't familiar with Dolphin, but because it has a command line interface, it does seem to be working better.  It appears that when multiple files are selected, it calls the "Open With" script multiple times, rather than passing all of them on the command line.  I can see use cases for both situations.  Really I'm trying to use the script as a plugin or queue manager. But going down this path is helping enormously, thanks for the suggestion.

@Remco: Agreed.  All of this is because oAuth isn't working for me (digiKam 5.8.0, Ubuntu 17.10).  So there are all hacks to get around that. 

Tac

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]> wrote:

On jeudi 22 février 2018 18:49:22 CET Tac Tacelosky wrote:
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> If I've selected one or more images when previewing an Album, I would love
> to be able to jump to the file manager with those images pre-selected.
> Then I could copy, move, drag, etc.

You can already do that in digikam for operations within the managed
collections. This has the advantage that digikam can keep its database up to
date with a minimum of operations.

If you do such operations through a file manager, digikam has to watch changes
in the filesystems it uses and adjust its database accordingly. For moving a
file through an external file manager, that means a full 'delete', and a full
'add' for each move. More complicated, and more risk of database corruption.

Also, if you use sidecars, when doing file operations through the file manager,
*you* take responsability for handling the sidecars correctly. When moving
files around within digikam, handling sidecars is (or at least should be) the
responsability of digikam.

Remco