[Shotwell] Path of a picture

[oliver]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:35:50PM -0007, Adam Dingle wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:26 AM, oliver wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> with shotwell 0.11.6 I can't get the path of a 
> picture. 
> 
> When using the option to open it with the file-manager, 
> I got the result, that there is no program that could 
> work on that file. 
> 
> What I'm looking for is, to get the path of the file, 
> so that I may copy it with cp or open it with gimp or 
> so. 
> 
> Do newer versions than 0.11.6 have this option, to give me the 
> path to the file? 
> If not, this would be a useful option. 
> 
> Oliver,
> 
> the Extended Information window (View->Extended Information) will show you the path of any photo.
[...]

It does not show anything.

Maybe, because I used not copying but only "linking" into the database??


> 
> Version 0.12 does have one new capability in this respect: when you choose
> Show in File Manager in 0.12, Nautilus (but not other file managers) will open
> a window showing the containing directory and will highlight the actual file.

I use wmii window manager on my Arch box.
On my Ubuntu box (old install) I have gnome, but there
shotwell is outdated.

So something that just gives me the path in a way that can be copied cia
X11-mechanisms would be fine.

And ofte I work with the shell and start software this way.
So e.g. just copy-and-paste the path via LeftMouseButton-select/copy
and MiddleMouseButton-insert would be nice.

Also fine would be, if I could drag a file from the overview window into
a shell window and the path will be inserted into the shell, as if typed by hand.
(At least with old shotwell versions 0.7.x this even does not work in Gnome.)


> Â In previous versions, and when you use a file manager other than Nautilus,
> you see only the containing directory but the file itself is not highlighted.

OK, so thats a progress.

But to have simple X11-based copy&paste mechanisms would be very helpful too.


> 
> If you want to open a photo in GIMP, there's no need to access the path
> explicitly; you can select GIMP as your external editor in Shotwell
> (Edit->Preferences->External Editors), then right click the photo and choose
> Open With External Editor.

Oh, cool. Thanks.
This was very helpful. :-)

So for the next day ( when i need a lot of photo editing, and GIMP
is my preferrd tool at the moment), this helps a lot.

But sometimes I need to have the path available e.g. for some other programs,
and to have it easily copied to the shell, as parameter for other programs, would be
very fine.

Also a list of files, if selected in the overview, copied to the shell
would be nice.

(I sometimes do some data analysis on files and trying around some things,
 and the to have the filenames as CLI-args opens possibilities.)

Ciao,
  Oliver