gimp desktop entry should use gimp-remote -n
Bug #162301 reported by
Daniel Rogers
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gimp (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gimp
When you right click on an image in nautilus and ask gimp to open the image, a new instance of gimp is launched for every image. This is usually not what you want. If you change the TryExec in the gimp.desktop desktop entry from "gimp-2.4" to "gimp-remote-2.4 -n" this will cause a new instance of gimp to be started if one doesn't exist, and if one does exist, open the new image in the same instance. Apparently, after years and years, "-n" is still undocumented in the man page for gimp-remote. This is probably also a bug. But -n has been there since at least 2003. -n is what makes gimp-remote spawn a new instance of gimp if necessary.
| Changed in gimp: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Pedro Fragoso (ember) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gimp: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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Thanks again for you bug report, this is fixed on Gimp 2.4.5 on Ubuntu Hardy.