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Bug 326956 - open desktop links with gimp
open desktop links with gimp
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Plugins
2.2.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 2.4
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-14 13:14 UTC by Thilo
Modified: 2008-01-15 13:04 UTC
See Also:
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Description Thilo 2006-01-14 13:14:00 UTC 
I saved a link to an image from Firefox on the Desktop. If I then drag this onto
the GIMP icon I get an unknown datatype error. I think it should open from URL
rather. GIMP can do this if you directly drop an image from a webbrowser into GIMP.

Other information:
This is the contents example desktop file called "Cory Doctorow.desktop"
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Verknüpfung mit Cory Doctorow
Type=Link
URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Doctorow.jpg
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2006-01-17 10:44:18 UTC 
This can be done as a plug-in and it should be rather simple. Setting the gnome-love keyword since this would be a nice job for a new contributor.
Comment 2 Michael Schumacher 2006-01-18 11:30:34 UTC 
We have reassigned a similiar request for a different platform to GTK+, see bug 163544.
Comment 3 Sven Neumann 2006-01-20 16:38:08 UTC 
Of course a platform-agnostic implementation would be preferred. Perhaps this can indeed somehow be abstracted in GTK+.
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2006-06-20 12:41:37 UTC 
That was just too simple to not to do it...

2006-06-20  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>

	* plug-ins/common/Makefile.am
	* plug-ins/common/plugin-defs.pl

	* plug-ins/common/desktop-link.c: new load plug-in that parses a
	.desktop file and if it is a link, asks GIMP to open the file the
	link points to (bug #326956).