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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!
I think this is a side-effect of bug 1361903, causing both shotwell desktop files to be identical.
shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d520993a98
shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c464dca50d
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
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
shotwell-0.23.5-1.fc24 does not fix this bug: sorry!
Here it works. In "Open With Other Application" you have to select "Shotwell Viewer" instead of "Shotwell". This should even be under "Recommended Applications".
Works also here.
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.
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.