[raw file] -> External Editor -> RawTerapee can't be started

[ff2000]

I get the error dialog

External command failed

Can't find matching file type.
Unable to start external command.

Editor->Darktable works fine but I am used to RawTherapee (and like its output more).

I used geeqies last stable release but also tried most recent git master.

[caclark]

It may relate to the conversion table at line 109 in editors.c - it's probably out of date, and doesn't contain the mime types used in the rawtherapee.desktop file. I don't know about this subject, so I'm not in a position to fix it. But for sure if you create your own desktop file for rawtherape, with the mime types you use, you can get rawtherapee to be called.

[caclark]

Fixed in commit b51727968 at geeqie.org

[pittendrigh]

It's September 2018 and I have this problem. I had this working but recently rebuilt with Mint Linux Tara. And now it's broken again, for Nikon *.NEF files. I removed the the apt-get version and built the latest geeqie from source. Still no satisfaction. A dialog pops up complaining about matching file type.

I am running rawtherapee as /usr/local/bin/RawTherapee-dev-5.4-792-g3643e15.AppImage ...with /usr/local/bin/rawtherapee as a symbolic link to RawTherapee-dev-5.4-792-g3643e15.AppImage

Is there an environment variable hassle with AppImage executables?

[caclark]

Could you go to Edit/Configure Plugins and check that the desktop file for RawTherapee contains: image/x-nikon-nef; That is the most likely cause for that error message.

[pittendrigh]

MimeType=image/jpeg;image/png;image/tiff;image/x-adobe-dng;image/x-canon-cr2;image/x-canon-crf;image/x-canon-crw;image/x-fuji-raf;image/x-hasselblad-3fr;image/x-hasselblad-fff;image/x-jpg;image/x-kodak-dcr;image/x-kodak-k25;image/x-kodak-kdc;image/x-leaf-mos;image/x-leica-rwl;image/x-mamiya-mef;image/x-minolta-mrw; image/x-nikon-nef; image/x-nikon-nrw;image/x-olympus-orf;image/x-panasonic-raw;image/x-panasonic-rw2;image/x-pentax-pef;image/x-pentax-raw;image/x-phaseone-iiq;image/x-raw;image/x-rwz;image/x-samsung-srw;image/x-sigma-x3f;image/x-sony-arq;image/x-sony-arw;image/x-sony-sr2;image/x-sony-srf;image/x-tif;

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Could you go to Edit/Configure Plugins and check that the desktop file for RawTherapee contains: image/x-nikon-nef; That is the most likely cause for that error message.

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[caclark]

It is not a problem with AppImages - the problem occurs within Geeqie before the external program is called. I am not able to replicate this problem with my setup. There are two ways to call a plugin - form the main menu, and from a right-click on a thumbnail. Could you please check both. If Rawtherapee does not appear in the right-click menus, it indicates a problem with the mime-types in the .desktop file. Could you also check, just to be sure, that this only applies to .nef raw files and not to e.g .cr2 files?

[pittendrigh]

Ok. Back from work. In a test directory I copied blue_horse.nef as mess.NEF and as mess.cr2.

I started geeqie compiled from geeqie-1.3.tar.xz Right click on a thumbnail produces a popup (I couldn't figure out how to use import to capture a popup) that contains no opportunity to spawn any other program.

I had fiddled with those sources so I removed them and un-tarred fresh from geeqie-1.3.tar.xz. Autogenned the sources and made it again. No change.

So I blew away that geeqie and used sudo apt-get install geeqie to get a slightly older version. Same behavior.

On a hunch I blew away ~/.config/geeqie and started again. Still no change.

I must be doing something stupid. But I don't know what it is.

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It is not a problem with AppImages - the problem occurs within Geeqie before the external program is called. I am not able to replicate this problem with my setup. There are two ways to call a plugin - form the main menu, and from a right-click on a thumbnail. Could you please check both. If Rawtherapee does not appear in the right-click menus, it indicates a problem with the mime-types in the .desktop file. Could you also check, just to be sure, that this only applies to .nef raw files and not to e.g .cr2 files?

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[caclark]

The right-click menu has an item at the top - "Edit" (the label is erroneous - it should be "Plugins". Some time ago I changed Editors to Plugins, as that seems more appropriate description - I missed that menu label at the time).

You can eliminate mime-type problems by commenting out (use the # character) the MimeType line in the .desktop file - Edit/Configure Plugins. That should get something to work, but does not identify the problem.

Instead try including the line: X-Geeqie-Verbose=true

in the .desktop file. The resulting dialogue should give more information about what is missing.

[pittendrigh]

Ah. Just got in again. I seem to be getting much the same geeqie1.3 from both sudo apt-get install geeqie and building from the geeqie-1.3.tar.xz I downloaded a few days ago.

When I make a test directory with a variety of image types, if I right click on the thumbnail for a jpeg (mess.jpg) I see a popup menu with a variety of executable options including rawtherapee and gimp.

If I right click on a jpeg thumbnail and choose gimp I'm in good shape. Gimp starts with that jpeg image. This also works from the top menu bar as edit->external-editors->gimp

If a mess.nef (which is a nikon raw file) if I use top menu bar edit->external-editors->rawthreapee I see the "External Command Failed -- can't find matching file type" menu.

If I right click on the mess.nef thumbnail I see a popup that includes only three options, two import metadata options and symlink, but no option for Gimp and no option rawtherapee (which did appear in top menu bar dropdown)

======== Finally, in /home/me/.config/geeqie/applications/appimagekit-rawtherapee.desktop if I comment out the MimeTypes line i do get different behavior.

Now, for any image file suffix I can think of I can right click on the thumbnail and see rawtherapee as an option. If I choose rawtherapee on a real nikon raw file nothing happens GUI-land but an error message appears in the terminal I started geeqie from:

/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee is a GIMP plug-in and must be run by GIMP to be used

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The right-click menu has an item at the top - "Edit" (the label is erroneous - it should be "Plugins". Some time ago I changed Editors to Plugins, as that seems more appropriate description - I missed that menu label at the time).

You can eliminate mime-type problems by commenting out (use the # character) the MimeType line in the .desktop file - Edit/Configure Plugins. That should get something to work, but does not identify the problem.

Instead try including the line: X-Geeqie-Verbose=true

in the .desktop file. The resulting dialogue should give more information about what is missing.

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[caclark]

Your RawTherapee .desktop file should have the line: Exec=rawtherapee %f

Could you check where the exec line is pointing to?

[pittendrigh]

Ouch. In an earlier reply I did say "I must be doing something stupid but I don't know what it is"

My raw rawtherapee (which runs properly directly from the command line) is: /usr/local/bin/RawTherapee-dev-5.4-792-g3643e15.AppImage

I also have a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin pointing "rawtherapee" to the AppImage

The original Exec entry, as created by sudo apt-get install, was: Exec="/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee" --remove-appimage-desktop-integration

I experimented with various combinations of removing --remove-appimage-desktop-integration and/or adding a $1 before the second double quote. I didn't try adding %f It didn't occur to me. I just did now change the Exec line to:

Exec="/usr/local/bin/rawtherapee %f" ##using the symlink

...and then: Exec="/usr/local/bin/RawTherapee-dev-5.4-792-g3643e15.AppImage"

In both cases I see the terminal window message: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee is a GIMP plug-in and must be run by GIMP to be used

...which is strange. This must be some sort of an environment hassle?

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Your RawTherapee .desktop file should have the line: Exec=rawtherapee %f

Could you check where the exec line is pointing to?

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[pittendrigh]

Solved. Sorry to have wasted so much of your time.

Stupid? I had been editing the remove Exec. I worked with the first Exec line in the config file and got it fixed.

However, the original as per installed Exec line was: Exec="/path/path/path/path/rawtherapee " %U

To get the spawn to work I changed the above to: Exec="/usr/local/bin/rawtherapee " %f

And that worked. Perhaps I qualify as one of those who know enough about the unix environment to get in trouble. But not to fix things. I'm retired. 70 now. I worked in unix server-side coding but never did anything with desktop GUI applications.

That did not work for me.

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 5:47 AM Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh < sandy.pittendrigh@gmail.com> wrote:

Ouch. In an earlier reply I did say "I must be doing something stupid but I don't know what it is"

My raw rawtherapee (which runs properly directly from the command line) is: /usr/local/bin/RawTherapee-dev-5.4-792-g3643e15.AppImage

I also have a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin pointing "rawtherapee" to the AppImage

The original Exec entry, as created by sudo apt-get install, was: Exec="/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee" --remove-appimage-desktop-integration

I experimented with various combinations of removing --remove-appimage-desktop-integration and/or adding a $1 before the second double quote. I didn't try adding %f It didn't occur to me. I just did now change the Exec line to:

Exec="/usr/local/bin/rawtherapee %f" ##using the symlink

...and then: Exec="/usr/local/bin/RawTherapee-dev-5.4-792-g3643e15.AppImage"

In both cases I see the terminal window message: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee is a GIMP plug-in and must be run by GIMP to be used

...which is strange. This must be some sort of an environment hassle?

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Your RawTherapee .desktop file should have the line: Exec=rawtherapee %f

Could you check where the exec line is pointing to?

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[caclark]

You are using a -dev- version of the AppImage, and I cannot find that version anywhere to download. Perhaps you could try the latest AppImage from RawTherapee, or the latest -dev- version from elsewhere.

By the way, I don't put a path in the call to RawTherapee in the desktop file - just the program name - and relay on the PATH environment variable to take care of things.

So, if I type on a command line I get: cclark@Asus:~/Desktop$ which rawtherapee /usr/bin/rawtherapee

And then: cclark@Asus:~/Desktop$ ls -l /usr/bin/rawtherapee lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Sep 6 10:01 /usr/bin/rawtherapee -> /home/cclark/Downloads/RawTherapee-releases-5.4.AppImage

[caclark]

OK, I've just seen your response. No problem.

retired. 70 now. I worked

Yeah, I remember 8-track paper tape too!