ART feature requests and discussion

[agriggio (Alberto)]

@jllailes

Would it be possible to set Art to let all the editors you want to access it? I.e. to parameterize all the desired editors, and to choose in a drop-down menu which would appear by clicking on the external editor icon? this would allow the automatic opening of the desired editor (gimp, krita, paint…) without having to enter the parameters constantly.
do you think this could be useful ?

Sure that’s possible. Already possible in fact
Let’s just do it the unix way:

#!/bin/bash

editor_names="Gimp Krita Geeqie" # EDITME - list of editors
i=0
args=""
for e in $editor_names; do
    i=$(expr $i + 1)
    args="$args $i $e"
done
selected=$(zenity --list --column="ID" --column="Name" --title="Select the Editor" --height=400 --hide-column=1 --print-column=1 $args)

if [ "$selected" = "1" ]; then
    /opt/appimages/GIMP.appimage "$@" # EDITME - command line for GIMP
elif [ "$selected" = "2" ]; then
    /opt/appimages/krita-4.1.7-x86_64.appimage "$@" # EDITME - krita
elif [ "$selected" = "3" ]; then
    /opt/geeqie/bin/geeqie "$@" # EDITME - geeqie
else
    exit 0
fi

just save the above in a file (e.g. select-editor.sh), make it executable, and modify the command lines where marked. It should work…