gimp can open remote files (http worked, ftp didn't for me) and also comes with
gimp-remote, which works like gnome-moz-remote.

the attached patch lets this all work nicely. (i think)



------- Additional Comments From jacob@ximian.com 2001-04-25 14:03:23 ----

Created an attachment (id=1461)
gimp-remote patch




------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-04-25 14:05:41 ----

The only risk here is that it makes "Open with The Gimp" work only if you 
have gimp 1.2 or newer installed. But Jacob says that's no problem.



------- Additional Comments From jacob@ximian.com 2001-04-25 14:22:39 ----

that patch has a tyop in it:

should be uri_schemes instead of uri_chemes



------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-04-25 15:05:34 ----

*** Bug 47968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***



------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-04-25 15:07:02 ----

Note that before Ximian was sending out an RPM that didn't include gimp-remote.
If the latest Ximian gimp packages don't have this problem, then we might be OK.

See http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120 for more information.



------- Additional Comments From jacob@ximian.com 2001-04-25 19:43:12 ----

i checked in CVS, and the gimp-remote file should be included in the latest
packages that were out this week.



------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-04-26 10:02:52 ----

The Red Hat 7.1 RPM for gimp (gimp-1.2.1-5) does not include gimp-remote.



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-04-26 10:18:48 ----

So it seems that the Ximian gimp package does have gimp-remote, but the RedHat
one does not. I'm pretty sure we don't want to invent some mechanism to allow it
to use gimp-remote if present, but fallback to plain gimp otherwise (too much
throwaway effort required). Therefore, we can either set the built-in database
to use gimp, which works for everyone but doesn't handle multiple files
optimally, or gimp-remote, which will work for everyone using Ximian GNOME but
not work at all for people using vanilla RedHat (by "not work at all", I mean
"gimp" won't appear as an option for opening image files in Nautilus).

My vote would be to leave it as-is (gimp, not gimp-remote) until RedHat's
release has gimp-remote in it. In the meantime, Ximian could patch
gnome-vfs/data/mime/gnome-vfs.applications to use gimp-remote instead of gimp if
they want to.



------- Additional Comments From jacob@ximian.com 2001-04-26 10:38:51 ----

sounds good.  we'll probably patch it to use gimp-remote.




------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-04-26 10:56:57 ----

There's a bug report about the Red Hat problem at http://
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35493 so they are aware 
of it.

I am going to do the remote files part of this patch now, and the rest when 
the Red Hat problem is resolved.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------