On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 18:52, Jehan Pagès
<jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> wrote:
If by photos, you mean for instance JPEG images, then this is a
display format (a very bad one at that, lossy, with ugly display
artifacts…). It is meant for viewing, not editing. Of course I am
not saying you should not edit it, we all edit JPEG images, I do it
too. But it's definitely not meant for being a good photo source for
further edit. And most people (even the ones who edit a lot of JPEG,
I think) would probably prefer a simple viewer as default action when
double-clicking for instance.
I overedited it a bit. Initially, I wrote bitmap images, as screenshots
in PNG format are the most common type of images that I edit.
What is the exact interaction you have in mind which would be the
consequence of making a viewer/editor differentiation?
For example, to edit a screenshot file in Pictures directory. In
Nautilus, I currently have to click “open with other application”
and then find GIMP in the dialogue. I just do not bother and drag the
file on manually started instance of GIMP instead.
I imagine that if the MIME types in desktop files were annotated with
intent, Nautilus could run the mime-apps-spec algorithm [1] twice,
filtering for “view” intent one time and “edit” intent the
second time, and it could show edit action in the context menu if they
differ.
[1]:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/ar01s05.html
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