I often run GUI applications from the command line. It would be good if GUI applications can respect the working directory they are started from, and open this directory by default. Gthumb does not do this, but at least it accept the directory name from the command line. So I have learned to run it as "gthumb .", which does exactly what I want.

There is an exception to that, though: when I have somewhere in another virtual desktop already running instance of gthumb, running "gthumb ." opens a new window, but not with the directory from where it has been run, but instead it opens a clone of the previous window. This is very confusing.

In my humble opinion gthumb should

- open multiple independent instances of itself by default
- open the current working directory by default

As a minimalistic solution, it should at least honor the command-line argument even in the second window.

Thanks for considering this modification.