Re: [Nautilus-list] open with->The Gimp context menu bug?

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 06:15  PM, Rich Rudnick wrote:

> When trying to open an image with gimp from the context menu, gimp 
> responds
> with 'can't open "file:///home/rich/image.jpg" ', or
> 'file:///home/rich/image.png is not present or is unreadable', but gimp 
> will
> open the image from the command line and gimp's file open menu.   Eye of
> Gnome will open the same files from the context menu.
>
> I'm not sure if this is really a bug or my newbie misconfiguration.

This is a real bug. It's a problem in the gnome-vfs application database.

The gnome-vfs.applications file contains information about how to deal 
with various programs. A while back, we changed the entry for the Gimp to 
indicate that it can handle http URLs. At the same time, though, we 
changed expects_uris to "true". Since the Gimp can't handle file URLs, but 
can handle http URLs, then it expects_uris should be set to "non-file".

This is wrong in the gnome-vfs 1.0.1 release and fixed in HEAD of 
gnome-vfs, but it's not clear when there will be a gnome-vfs 1.0.2 release,
 because there are other untested changes in HEAD that might not be ready 
for release.

A workaround is to correct this in your local copy of gnome-
vfs.applications.

    -- Darin