script-generated collections file

[stephenboston]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Request

GEEQIE VERSION

Geeqie 2.0.1 GTK3

OS / DISTRIBUTION

SUMMARY

I want to generate a collections file.

I have tried inserting a list of full paths, between the header and footer i find in collections files, but geeqie doesn't recognize the content, or empties it of all files not added through the GUI, for example:

#Geeqie collection #created with Geeqie version 2.0+git20221019-e491df33 #geometry: 32 130 440 450 "/home/stephen/photo/sdfsdfasdf.jpg" "/home/stephen/photo/spopyiyiyiy.jpg" #end

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Create a collections file in the collections directory as per documentation

/home/stephen/.local/share/geeqie/collections

Use existing file as template, add list of line-delimited, double-quote wrapped absolute paths to valid image files.

Within geeqie attempt to open the collection. The collection appears as an option in the list of collections but it does not load.

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[caclark]

Please make an ls -la $HOME/.local/share/geeqie/collections/ Are there any files other than .gqv in that directory?

[stephenboston]

There is a .thumbnails directory.

Meantime I've found a work around

for f in $(cat playlist) ;do geeqie --remote --list-add:"$f";done;

This creates an unnamed collection that behaves as expected I think. I'm a little disappointed by that behavior but that's another topic.

[caclark]

I cannot replicate the problem.

Could you hand-make a .gqv file which includes a test image, then use Geeqie to create another .gqv file with only that same image?

The two files should be bit-identical.