[Shotwell] Choosing application opened by "Show in file manager"

[Joseph Bylund]

On 04/04/2012 11:53 AM, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Joe,
>
> - What operating system version are you running?
Linux poseidon 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 20:45:39 UTC 
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> - What version of Shotwell are you running?
shotwell	0.12.1-2~oneiric1


>
> - Is Nautilus in your PATH?  In other words, what do you see in response to this command?
>
> $ type nautilus
This looks like it is the issue:

type nautilus
nautilus is /home/jbylund/bin/nautilus

ls -l /home/jbylund/bin/nautilus
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jbylund ants 21 2012-02-06 21:48 /home/jbylund/bin/nautilus 
-> /usr/local/bin/thunar*

so I have nautilus installed, but it's actually thunar...  so I imagine 
the command that is called with nautilus i.e. "nautilus ..." actually 
opens the default image viewer when you replace nautilus with thunar. 
If I delete my symlink it opens up nautilus.  I don't remember why I 
made the symlink, possibly just after switching to xfce to ease the 
transition.

If I uninstall thunar I get a 'missing program "filelight"' or somesuch. 
  If I make a link named filelight in my personal bin that points to 
thunar I get almost the behavior I would expect (the file in question is 
not selected, so if the folder has many photos in it there's still some 
digging around).

So there appear to be a couple of small niggles.
1) shotwell does not respect file manager of choice, what about a 
dropdown like for choose external editor?
2) it does not select the file of interest in some file managers when 
choosing "show in file manager".

thanks for the quick reply,

-Joe

>
> (I know that you want to use Thunar rather than Nautilus, but Shotwell checks for Nautilus explicitly so the presence/absence of Nautilus could be relevant here.)
>
> adam
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Joseph Bylund<joseph.bylund at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I'm having an issue where when I right click a photo in my library and
>> select "Show in file manager" eog (previously "eye of gnome" now "gnome
>> image viewer" is opened).  How do I select which application is opened
>> by this action (I would prefer thunar). I want to check that there is
>> not something that I'm missing before I open a ticket.
>> -Joe
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