ART installation on Fedora 41

Software ART
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I am completely out of my depth here, apologies.

I am running fedora, and I would like to replace my regular RawTherapee raw photo editing workflow with ART. This means, for me, that when I click on a raw file I want it to automatically open in ART. I would also appreciate a desktop icon like any other flatpak/rpm on my system, so that I don’t have to run the executable from nautilus every time I want to open ART. I am assuming that I can achieve these things by downloading the .tar.xz file from the github and then compiling and installing it?

This is where I would appreciate some help if possible, I have no idea how to get from the tar file in my downloads folder to an application that behaves like my current RawTherapee flatpak.

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Making a desktop shortcut and a file association to the ART executable you already seem to run should be the easiest way. But you need to tell us which desktop environment you use. I should know the KDE way of how to do this.

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Thank you for the reply, I use gnome (47) I’m afraid though.

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Hi, I think menulibre works regardless of the desktop env. Just install it and follow e.g. some YouTube tutorial on how to use it.

HTH

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While in Gnome press the Start button to enter the Overview mode. Then type ART. If the app is found right click on its icon and select “Pin”. ART will be added to Gnome Dash. Personally I use Dash to Dock extension to get a nice panel somewhat similar to MacOS.

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I’ll give this a go and let you know how it goes, thank you.

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I’m trying to figure out how to get to the stage where it would show up in gnome search like any other app :slight_smile:

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Thanks for your help so far, I’ve found my way to manually creating a .desktop file which now works great for launching it from the gnome overview.

Is anyone aware of a way that I can add it to this menu, so that I can have raw files open in ART by default?

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I find Nautilus is to be too limited for my tastes so I use Nemo instead. In it I can right-click a file, select Properties, select Open With and set ART as default.

Though I much prefer to open files from inside ART using its File Browser.

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Are you also linking to the ART executable using a .desktop file?

This is my backup plan, happy to get used to that workflow too if need be.

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Yes, it is the standard way for Gnome to integrate apps:

/usr/local/share/applications/ART.desktop

File Browser offers many advantages over regular file manager regarding handling of photos. https://art.pixls.us/Reference#markdown-header-file-browser

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Having created this file, including a MIME type, it’s still not showing up in the ‘open with’ menu in nautilus.

I think it’s about time I begin to use it, thanks for the recommendation!

Would still be great to be able to set ART as the default program for opening raw files at some point, but I can make do with this.

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Honestly I don’t know how people can use Files in Gnome. It is so limited compared to probably any other file manager. For example, in Nemo it is trivial to open a file with different apps and change the default. In Files I couldn’t find this functionality.

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Why use either for photos? I’d much rather use art’s file browser.

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I’ve actually managed it now- installing nemo and using ‘open with command’ to open it with the ART executable worked, and now, even after uninstalling nemo, ART is the default application for raw files. Thanks for all your help everyone, and I shall continue to use nautilus for photo management despite your efforts :wink: