@maderafunk There was a post that discussed the Command Line Interface DxO Photolab Command line interface.
The last time an issue like this came up it turned out that the originator of the topic had an old version of Photo Mechanic and a very large directory. I also had the buggy version of Photo Mechanic installed, which didn’t help Open individual file rather than directory - impossible?!
I have just uninstalled Digikam 7.10 and upgraded to 7.8 and remembered why I gave up on DigiKam!
Attempting to launch to PhotoLab directly sent the whole directory and does so regardless of the package on the other end. With one image selected the ‘Open with’ command results in a request to designate a program and the whole directory winds up in that program! If more than one image is selected then that option does not exist at all in the menu!
So we have:-
DigiKam - transfers entire directory but not as an ‘external selection’
FSIV transfers multiple files one at a time but only the last one will be seen in DxPL
FRV transfers one or a selection of images (from the same directory)
XnViewMP transfers one or a tagged selection of images (from one of more directories)
IrfanView transfers one or a selection of images to DxPL
I am sorry but you are now on your own with Digikam, I seem to remember reading that the feature was only available on Linux but that might just be my memory playing tricks! Even going via the Light Table does the same thing!
Sorry I am out of ideas!!
Pretty much the same thing! The image directory is opened in the ‘PhotoLibrary’ as a directory rather than in ‘Customize’ as an ‘External selection’.
The issue is that the differentiation between images is lost and as stated above DigiKam doesn’t even show the ‘Open with’ when multiple images are selected!
PS:-
The best you can do is to assign a ‘Rating’ or a keyword on PL5.5, a ‘Label’ would be available on PL6 and “launch” PL5.5 and then go look for the marked items from amongst however many images you typically have in a directory!?