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Bug 1361817

Summary:	Shotwell doesn't accept URLs on the command line any more: this breaks the desktop file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Wilkinson <bugzilla>
Component:	shotwell	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	marcodriusso, mclasen, michel, palazzotti, siddhesh, thomas.moschny
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Last Closed:	2016-08-25 13:54:18 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description James Wilkinson 2016-07-30 21:39:12 UTC

Hello there,

It looks as though between Fedora 22 and Fedora 24, Shotwell has lost the ability to open files by URL on the command line (just passing it a filename works).

This is a problem because it breaks the .desktop file at /usr/share/applications/shotwell.desktop: in particular, the line that reads
Exec=shotwell %U
The %U is documented as being "multiple URLs" at https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en#commandline

If I change the line to
Exec=shotwell %F
I can open a picture in Shotwell from GNOME Files (choose the file, right-click, Open With Other Application, choose Shotwell). And yes, my wife does use that functionality!

With the .desktop file as provided, I just get launched into the Shotwell main menu, with no hint as to how to import the picture.

Not sure whether you want to take this as a Shotwell bug, a .desktop file bug, or if there's some GNOME library I haven't installed that allows opening by URL (but then it seems to work for other applications...)

Thanks for all the work you do in Fedora!

Comment 1 Thomas Moschny 2016-08-14 08:28:04 UTC

I think this is a side-effect of bug 1361903, causing both shotwell desktop files to be identical.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-08-18 14:51:34 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d520993a98

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-08-18 14:51:46 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c464dca50d

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-08-19 00:23:17 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d520993a98

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-08-19 00:58:57 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c464dca50d

Comment 6 James Wilkinson 2016-08-20 18:37:13 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc24 does not fix this bug: sorry!

Comment 7 Thomas Moschny 2016-08-20 18:57:29 UTC

Here it works. In "Open With Other Application" you have to select "Shotwell Viewer" instead of "Shotwell". This should even be under "Recommended Applications".

Comment 8 Marco Driusso 2016-08-22 16:19:37 UTC

Works also here.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-08-25 13:54:10 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-08-27 20:50:55 UTC

shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.