GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 105653
"open" the same as "Open in X new windows" with multiple files
Last modified: 2013-04-24 21:01:40 UTC
When I select multiple files of same mime type and right click 1. I should be able to use the "Open With" item in the context menu, ATM it is greyed out 2. Selecting "Open" should open both files with the open application if it can accept multiple uris. ATM the Open item is the same as "Open in 2 new windows"
Part one is a dupe of bug 48055 but I cannot see a dupe for part 2 so i'm going to leave this open and change the title. I'd really love to be able to select 10 jpegs and open them all in One gimp session instead of 10 gimp sessions.
Still seeing this with 2.8.x
This is extremely annoying. Fixing it requires too many architectural changes to be ready for Nautilus 2.12.
Created attachment 51459 [details] [review] Proposed (prelimitary) libnautilus-private/ patch This patch allows to cancellate nautilus file list call_when_ready jobs. It may be buggy and isn't tested very well. I wonder whether there are multiple pending requests allowed with identical callback and callback data. If this is the case, we'd have to give the elements in the stack-like global data GList IDs.
Created attachment 51461 [details] [review] Proposed (prelimitary) src/ patch Applying this patch has no user-visible effect. It changes the FMDirectoryView to request activation of multiple files at once, though. Some of the loops in The code in the activate_callback callback can later be replaced by (to be created) functions that take multiple files.
*** Bug 40582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** Bug 321137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Is this bug likely to be fixed for 2.14? It is quite a serious one, particularly since the emphasis nowadays seems to be on opening applications from the file manager, rather than the menu. The bug is particularly prominent when opening multiple video/music files in TOTEM.
sorry for spam, updating version numbers as this is still present in nautilus/GNOME 2.13
Yes, it is extemely likely that it will be fixed as soon as Alex returns from holidays, and I revised a patch according to Alex's suggestions: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-December/msg00019.html
A patch was committed. Closing.
That is awesome news, congrats!
It appears there was a regression or a bug in the patch -- see bug 343930.
*** Bug 481823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***