On Thursday 16 February 2006 00:03, Calum Polwart wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:26 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 22:11, David Spagnol wrote: > > > On the Right-click menu for a picture frame, there is an item "Get > > > Picture ...". Could I request a new item "Paste Picture Path" > > > > > > Why is this? Well if I run DigiKam in Linux, and Right-Click > Copy on > > > a thumbnail, the pasted contents of the clipboard are something like: > > > > > > file:///home/davecs/Data/clipart/Camera/2006/01/07/r0012645.jpg > > > > > > (this is obviously a specific path on my system) > > > > > > Now perhaps if this were another program, the paste may have been: > > > > > > /home/davecs/Data/clipart/Camera/2006/01/07/r0012645.jpg > > > > > > or someone using the windows version may be > > > > > > C:\My Pictures\2006\01\07\r0012645.jpg or even file:///c:/My > > > Pictures/2006/01/07/r0012645.jpg > > > > > > But what I ask is that if an attempt is made to paste and from the text > > > on the clipboard, a valid graphic file can be located, then that > > > graphic will populate that picture frame. It would make it easier for > > > users to drop in graphics from other cataloguing programs. > > > > Good idea, please submit a request on bugs.scribus.net. > > > > Craig > > But do we not already have that feature?? > > In Gnome when I open File Browser and R-click an image and select copy I > get the file name (without file://) and that can be pasted (R-click or > Ctrl-V) into the file name field on the Get Image dialogue and it works. > > Granted if it comes with file:/// at the start it breaks! But you only > need to delete file:// manually... > > Perhaps this only works in Gnome?
He wants to paste the file URL into the image frame instead of even using get text. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060216/76f58664/attachment.pgp
