Hope this will finally fix the problem: Fix external editor on macOS by Lawrence37 · Pull Request #6809 · Beep6581/RawTherapee · GitHub
@jhmnieuwenhuis Native command attempts to launch the external editor using methods specific to the operating system instead of using the platform-agnostic Gnome utilities. It’s what was used in 5.9 and older versions which is why native command should be checked.
How do I download the new version ?
So I can test it.
Maybe you can test with chrome > open -a “/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome”
Works from the command line.
If it works then great but using the bundle id to open an app is not a sure thing.
Basically, it won’t work for all users all the time, therefor I continue to recommend against using the bundle id to open apps, and I recommend not recommending that other people start using the bundle id. Only use the name open -a photoshop
@Lawrence37 with your patch, the error message is gone, but no lauch. Clicking the external editor button and pressing ctrl-e both only raise the empty and non-fillable Select Application window.
Prefs:
Yielding:
In verbose mode there was no output to the terminal.
How did you download it?
Or did you build a version from github source?
@jhmnieuwenhuis
Yes I am building and packaging RawTherapee from github sources.
When I have a successful build ready for test, I update my icloud drive with it.
You can find the latest build here: https://kd6kxr.github.io/meta/
Again, thank you for taking the time to help with testing!
Anytime, love to help.
You are also putting a lot of time into this.
Thanks !!
I did some testing.
Seems to work fine now.
I used : open -a “/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2023/Adobe Photoshop 2023.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop 2023”
This opens a specific version of photoshop with the current image.
If i use : open -b “com.adobe.Photoshop” the beta version of photoshop is beeing opened with the image.
The native checkbox is gone
I will test some more…
The bundle name ( com.adobe.photoshop ) is the same for the normal photoshop version and the beta version. So using the open -b “com.adobe.photoshop” will open one of the photoshop versions.
Not predictable which one.
I now use 2 entries in the external editor setting
Ps open -a “Adobe Photoshop 2023”
PsB open -a “Adobe Photoshop (Beta)”
So now i can choose which version to open
The settings from the buggy version is interfering. Click on the arrow next to the external editor button and select the editor. Now try again.
Works fine now !
One thing I notice with the latest release.
There is no options file after installation.
There should be a directory : ~/Library/Application Support/RawTherapee
But the directory does not exist.
@jhmnieuwenhuis
It is a sandboxed bundle, so everything is contained here:
~/Library/Containers/RawTherapee/data/Library/Application\ Support
In ~/Library/Containers I only see .com.xxx directories no RawTherapee.
Ok, so it is going to be in the com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee folder:
/Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee/Data/Library/Application\ Support/RawTherapee5-meta/config/options
YES, thats it, Thanks.
B.t.w. The new build has the same name as the previous build.
Version: 5.9-260-gc557b320c
Andy Astbury asked me about that. I saw it too.
Did You use the same name ?
@HIRAM @Lawrence37 @jhmnieuwenhuis Thanks for the work on this issue, it’s now working on my machine too.
Confusing having the same build number, but just glad it’s working!
@jhmnieuwenhuis @Andy_Astbury1
The name will change once committed changes gets merged. Usually I wait for several commits to go thru between builds, but this is more of an active test.
@Lawrence37
After purging my local repo, I do have it working on macOS 11.7 intel x86_64 now. However, on macOS 13 on arm64 I still get the behavior, even after reselecting the editor with the triangle, where instead of launching, I just get the Select Application window as above.
I am on a Mac mini M1 running macos 13.
It works fine.
Are you in default security mode, or have you deactivated any system integrity functionality?
