Version: (using KDE 4.4.2) Installed from: Compiled From Sources When editing images while browsing from within gwenview I always want to be able to use the GIMP for that task, but to have the Gimp as primary application in the context menu means that all other applications such as KMail or Konqueror pick up the same - in these contexts insane - default. I don't want to always open images with the GIMP and selecting the application further down from the list is error prone... Who came up with the non-context sensitive, one selection fits all default application list? For me this thing is a blocker in usability - and to think what a treat KDE3 gwenview one was makes me feel rather sad!
I'm a little confused by this report. I'm sure Gwenview allows me to open the image I'm viewing in another external application through the "Open with" sub-menu. And I personally have no trouble in choosig GIMP to open it(maybe because it appears as the first entry in that submenu on my system), even when I do not set GIMP as the default application for those graphical formats. Do you suggest gwenview to define its own default external application? Please describe your problem and suggestion in a more clear and unambiguous way.
I think the reporter is asking for an easier method of opening an image in an external editor than doing: [File menu or right-click} > Open With > GIMP. Perhaps the reporter wants the ability to define a certain application as the default external editor, and then add a toolbar button and menu item (that can be given a keyboard shortcut) for "open in default editor".
Nope, it wasn't about the faster bit - it was about the drop in usability over all. Previous to my request you had the ability in Gwenview to define the application that was used when editing in an external program. Then Gwenview switched to the system setting "primary image editor" (or something to the gist) which also applies in all sorts of other applications including, KMail etc... To have GIMP launch from these just to view an image is ludicrous, to have a fast image viewer launch as image editor from Gwenview is equally unsatisfactory. But never mind, it didn't take 7 years for me to abandon the platform. Now I am a happy Mac user, there the choices are much more sane, KDE could learn a lot from that environment!
I know how you feel. As a former Mac user myself, I have a hankering to bring the kind of superfast workflows possible in macOS to the Linux world. We can learn a lot. This bug is not fixed since you never got what you were looking for, which as far as I can tell, is a fast way of editing an image with an external application without having to either mark that application as the primary image handling program or use a nested menu (File > Open With > select some app).