Digikam and "Open with" on Gnome (Ubuntu 24.04)

Good day folks. Is there anyone who uses Digikam on Ubuntu and managed to get “Open with” to work? If so, how did you do it? I seem to recall that there was something I had to do but foolishly did not write down what it was. I am on Ubutntu 24.04 and latest Digikam 8.4. Thanks

Without more details about your problem, that’s hard to answer. I mean, I understand you have an issue with “Open with”, but not what the specifics are. You also don’t say if you have changed the desktop environment from default or anything else.

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I’ve also had a minor problem with open with. It doesn’t remember that I want to open .NEF files with rawtherapee, despite my having checked the little ‘remember this for all .NEF files’ each time I do so. After manually selecting rawtherapee it opens without issue.

I’m on Debian testing/trixie, with Digikam 8.4. I just use a window manager (i3), rather than a desktop environment (i.e., not Gnome or KDE).

Not sure this is the same problem, but it’s been on my list of things I should fix at some point.

Ah, sorry, just figured it would be a common enough problem that someone would recognise it. When you right click on an image in Digikam, and select “Open with” there are no applications listed. This is the case for Flatpak and Snap installs.

It seems to be something different. This is about the Application list being completely missing. Oddly, I just tried the Appimage version and it works as expected, and the list of applications shows as expected.

oh, that’s the same for me too. When I open “open with” the application list is empty, but at some point I entered /usr/bin/rawtherapee, and that’s offered as the only option in the drop-down list for the prompt.

Are you using flatpak or snap? Those are sandbox environments and cannot “see” the other applications unless you make changes allow the connection.

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Never assume anything and always explain the problem in detail.

I know that with Flatpak you generally need to set up the right permissions. Snap might be the same, since it’s also sandboxed. AppImage, on the other hand, has no such issues.

I’m using i3 too and this happened to me as well earlier this year. I had i3 set up to load the basic XFCE components, and everything worked fine until something changed and not just this broke, but various other things got wonky also. I fixed it by having i3 run within XFCE instead, replacing the WM and disabling the desktop and panel.

Here’s basically what I did: https://uzluisf.gitlab.io/posts/2018/05/26/setting-up-xfce-with-i3/

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Yes, all permissions are granted that I can find. I just gave up on the flatpak and snap versions and I am sticking with the Appimage version. It was the same with Nautilus, you cannot drag files onto Nautilus, so I had to install Nemo for my book workflow to work. All these sandbox changes are good in theory, but in practice they suck.

Thanks. If I go back to flatpak/snap I will try that.

Maybe switch OS. I like Fedora KDE spin.

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