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

[Adam Dingle]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Bylund <joseph.bylund at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes - that's what's going on.

> 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?

I think there's no need for a dropdown, but you're right: currently Shotwell runs Nautilus whenever it is present in your PATH, but instead it should always run your file manager of choice.  I've ticketed this at

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4998

> 2) it does not select the file of interest in some file managers when 
> choosing "show in file manager".
Well, Thunar and Nautilus behave differently here.  If you launch Nautilus and pass a filename on the command line, Nautilus will open a window showing the enclosing directory and will highlight the given file.  But if you do the same with Thunar, Thunar will instead attempt to open the file itself using whatever application is preferred for it.  So if you'd Thunar to show and select the file when launched from Shotwell, you'll probably need to convince the Thunar developers to make Thunar behave like Nautilus in this respect.

adam