Bug 325929

Summary:	A button to share images in the conversation, like the Hangouts one.
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	mgonzlezgmz
Component:	text-ui	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, mklapetek, s.suther
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.6.3
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Chakra
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://i.imgur.com/FsP5aep.png
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Image button in Hangout

Description mgonzlezgmz 2013-10-12 16:18:44 UTC

One feature that I miss a lot from Google Hangouts: a button in the conversation window to share an image with my friends, maybe with an option to take a picture directly from the webcam?

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
A camera button to share images in the conversation.

Comment 1 mgonzlezgmz 2013-10-12 16:20:25 UTC

Created attachment 82800 [details]
Image button in Hangout

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2013-11-04 22:02:05 UTC

What advantage would this have over drag & drop that we have now. Plus we have a send file button in the toolbar which equates to the same thing, right?

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-11-17 13:44:44 UTC

If you can provide the information requested in comment #2, please add it.

Comment 4 mgonzlezgmz 2013-11-17 15:58:28 UTC

I did not even know about the drag&drop feature.
You're right, if we have a "Send File" button that covers all, it makes no sense to have a "Send image" button too that covers the same funcionality.

Instead, we could have a webcam integration (having a button that launches the webcam app -kamoso?-, you take the picture, and voilà, it's shared). it's even possible?

Comment 5 Martin Klapetek 2013-11-18 22:12:09 UTC

Yes, it would be somewhat possible, but would require changes on both sides (Kamoso and Telepathy).

Best would be if Kamoso was either a KPart which we could embed or if it supported kipi plugins (I see some kipi commits in the log, however don't see any in the UI). Other possible solution could be to make the images from Kamoso picture bar draggable, that way you could take a picture and drag it to text-ui and send the file.

With Kamoso being a KPart, we could even upload the picture somewhere behind the scenes and paste a link in case direct file transfer is not feasible. However that requires some changes in Kamoso code, so it should be taken there first. Once it has a proper support, we can easily add it on our side.

Comment 6 Martin Klapetek 2013-11-21 15:16:20 UTC

*** Bug 327875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***