Sorry to bring this up again only now, but my mac is in the shop and I finally have a temporary replacement to keep me running and wanted to follow up on a few things
- I was taught to include full path to .app if it is not in the standard /Applications folder, but realized that it has never crossed my mind to actually try without. I tested and found that
open -a AppName
without full path and extension will work regardless of where the app is copied to.
Even more surprising was to find that the AppName argument is not case sensitive, e.g.
open -a GIMP, open -a gimp, open -a GimP
all openedUsers/someArbitraryFolder/GIMP.app
without any issues, both from the terminal and from RawTherapee. - the
Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/start
path is quite unusual. Maybe it was used years ago when gimp on OS X was still using XQuartz? In any case, current GIMP.app downloaded from gimp.org doesn’t include it.
But the default hardcoded path to gimp seems to beopen -a /Applications/GIMP.app
(rtgui/extprog.cc line 253) no? the path listed in Rawpedia seems to be be some fallback option?
I think
open -a gimp
would be a better default hard coded option thanopen -a /Applications/GIMP.app
because it should still work even if GIMP.app is not in the/Applications
folder - I think there is a typo where it says “Note that you need to enclose it in parentheses” it should be “quotes”.
The quotes are only necessary when there is a space in the app name
Hope this helps and not just confusing cheers