Can't open multiple files from File Browser in F-Spot Photo Viewer

[Edward]

Binary package hint: f-spot

In Hardy, if you select multiple files, right click them and select 'Open with "F-Spot Photo Viewer"' the viewer silently fails to load, whereas it used to load all the selected files. It still works if you select only one file.

F-Spot 0.4.2-0ubuntu2 appears to require a '-view' argument for every file viewed - i.e. this will not work:

# f-spot -view file-a.cr2 file-b.cr2

but this will:

# f-spot -view file-a.cr2 -view file-b.cr2

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

3 things to add:

* In Gutsy, it was possible to select multiple files in Nautilus and open them
  in F-Spot. Therefore, the behaviour we're seeing in Hardy is a regression.

* If this isn't going to be considered an F-Spot bug, then it is a bug in Nautilus
  since it allows you to select multiple files and attempt to view them using
  F-Spot. :-)

* It is possible to work around this bug by right-clicking on a folder in Nautilus,
  selecting "Open with Other Application" and then selecting "F-Spot Photo
  Viewer". One reason for doing this is that, when viewing multiple CR2
  (Canon Raw) images, switching between images is an order of magnitude
  faster in F-Spot that it is in GThumb.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

However, opening a whole folder doesn't maintain the sort order. The files are displayed in directory order (same as "ls -U") rather than sorted alphabetically.

Therefore, this isn't as useful as the old behaviour where multiple files could be selected and they would appear in F-Spot in the order they appeared in the Nautilus listing that they were selected from.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

This is fixed upstream:

  http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/f-spot/trunk/src/main.cs?r1=3883&r2=3882&pathrev=3883

That patch applies with a bit of fuzz. I've attached a rediffed version that should apply with no fuzz.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

to be looked by a desktop-dev thanks for the patch.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

To ensure that the patch fixes the bug and so that I (and others) have a working version I've uploaded a patched version to my PPA at:

  https://launchpad.net/~martin-meltin/+archive

You'll want the hardy version (my gutsy package for f-spot fixes a bug in the gutsy version).

I've tested the i386 version and the bug is fixed.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

I'm a surprised to see this tagged with "Low" importance. Given that F-spot gets its own page in the list of Hardy features http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/804features/photos/ I would have thought the prominence of the package, and the availability of a fix, would make the importance higher? :-)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied this hardy-proposed version to intrepid.

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

Will there be a delay before this hits the hardy-proposed repository?

I don't see it there yet... but then I haven't used -proposed before.

Thanks!

[Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin)]

OK, got it - approx was caching Packages.bz2 a little too aggressively.

The version in hardy-proposed fixes this bug.

I'll add some comments to bug #208467 about this release and importing photos.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

confirmed, the new version fix this issue, now you can use: f-spot -view * if you want to and it works fine.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.