Bug 325929 - A button to share images in the conversation, like the Hangouts one.
Summary: A button to share images in the conversation, like the Hangouts one.
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: telepathy
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: text-ui (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.3
Platform: Chakra Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Telepathy Bugs
URL: http://i.imgur.com/FsP5aep.png
Keywords:
: 327875 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-10-12 16:18 UTC by mgonzlezgmz
Modified: 2013-11-21 15:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Image button in Hangout (7.38 KB, image/png)
2013-10-12 16:20 UTC, mgonzlezgmz
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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. ***