[Shotwell] Configuring script as "External Editor"

[Adam Dingle]

Kent,

Shotwell allows you to launch an external editor on only one photo at 
once.  Conceivably that could change, but the external editor feature 
wasn't really designed for your use case, i.e. launching external 
command-line tools.  I think that's sufficiently different that it might 
be worth implementing as a separate feature.  I've opened a ticket here:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4352

adam

On 11/05/2011 07:15 AM, Kent Tenney wrote:
> Example:
>
> ---------------------------------------
> mycode.py
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import sys
> import mypackage
> image_files = sys.argv[1:]
>
> for imf in image_files:
>    mypackage.monkey_with(imf)
> -------------------------------------------
>
> I'd like shotwell to make a shell call to mycode.py,
> passing the selected photos.
>
> I expect this is not feasible.
>
> Maybe consider it a duplicate of the wish list item to copy selected image
> file names to the clipboard. That would provide a (somewhat clunky) way
> to leverage Shotwell as a gui for image processing code.
>
> I see Shotwell will only offer "External Editor" when a single image
> is selected.
> Could multiple images be sent to an external editor?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
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