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Investigate sending image data rather than image link #14

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pdf opened this issue Nov 25, 2017 · 4 comments
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Investigate sending image data rather than image link #14

pdf opened this issue Nov 25, 2017 · 4 comments

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@pdf
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pdf commented Nov 25, 2017

BoyM on addons.mozilla.org writes:

Было бы лучше. Если при открытии картинки в браузере, на устройство передавалась картинка (файл), а не ссылка.

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Would be better. If you open a picture in the browser, the device transferred a picture (file), and not a link.

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JDrewes commented Aug 23, 2022

I originally installed this extension and the com host to do exactly that.

Reason:
When KDEConnect is installed and working, just marking the URL will already copy it to my phone. There, I can then just paste the URL from the clipboard.
The send function of the Browser plugin appears to do exactly the same.
Am I doing something wrong?

What I was hoping for:
-The image to be shared to the mobile device directly, e.g. for inserting in chats. Spectacles' share function can already do this (the KDE/Plasma screenshot utility), but one needs to go the extra mile and make a screenshot first.

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pdf commented Aug 23, 2022

When KDEConnect is installed and working, just marking the URL will already copy it to my phone. There, I can then just paste the URL from the clipboard.
The send function of the Browser plugin appears to do exactly the same.
Am I doing something wrong?

The extension should automatically open the link in the associated application on the target device (usually the browser, but sometimes other apps will accept a particular URL), which is the improvement over stock copy-paste - one-click open instead of manually pasting stuff. Not so useful if you want to put the linked data into some other app like chat I guess.

I think to send the image data I'd probably have to download the image again to get it into a javascript object, and then send it with the right mime-type via KDEConnect. I just haven't really had the time or inclination to tackle it, because it's not a use-case that I personally have.

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JDrewes commented Aug 23, 2022

Thank you for the fast response. Sending images (screenshots and other) to my phone is about 90% of what I do with the whole kdeconnect ecosystem. It is my way of getting around using messengers and other applications that have no native linux clients.
I guess that doesn't apply to everybody else!

Cheers,
Jan

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jdohn15 commented Jun 4, 2024

Any updates on this? Being able to copy past images would be such a nice thing as a university student studying.

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