said Michael:
| Appologies if this is useless as I know nothing about gthumb or digikam, | but based upon the name gthumb (eg thumbs...) have you looked at an app | called Geeqie? I've used it for years and it does have a right click | open in gimp.
Having spent pretty much all day messing around with various applications -- Gwenview, Shotwell, and of course gThumb and digikam -- your recommendation comes as close as I can find to being useful for my purposes (though I have come configuring and such to do before I'm sure). gThumb was a great program, but after about 3.3.1 the gnomaniacs improved it to and beyond uselessness.
When I get back from an assignment I dump the pictures into directories on the hard drive, then use a program (previously gThumb) to take a quick look, look at a larger version of the picture(s) I think I want, open it/them in the GIMP for a touchup, and ship 'em. I don't need "albums" or cutesy-named collections or anything beyond what I described a sentence ago. You'd think this would be easy to find. It's not, though Geeqie may be made to do these things.
Thanks!