[digiKam-users] Copy full path to physical file?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hum,

What's about to drag and drop icon-view items to a text editor ? The way to
pass info from DK to target application is a little bit different.

Does it work for you ? What do you see in text editor exactly ?

Gilles Caulier

2018-04-27 23:22 GMT+02:00 Sky Diver <skydivergm at gmail.com>:

> Pasting as "Help > Components Information > Copy to Clipboard" indeed
> works but I'm pretty certain the copying method is different than
> copying an image via the thumbnails view.
>
> I don't have the code compiled but I dug as deep as reaching
> DragDropViewImplementation::copy()
> IMO the mimeData() in Windows is different than Linux.
>
> To double-check this I installed a Clipboard Viewer app and when
> copying text I see that indeed text is being copied to the cilpboard,
> but when copying an image via digikam as described above, an OLE
> object is being copied.
> OLD objects may not be pasted into a text editor as plain text.
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is no reason to see a failure while copy and paste under Windows.
> We
> > use Qt MimeData encapsulation to clipboard and it must be portable.
> >
> > Or perhaps we have a default encoding problem as explained here :
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47443545/cut-and-
> paste-clipboard-exchange-between-qt-application-and-windows-explorer
> >
> > Just to be sure, go to "Help/Components Info" dialog for DK, and press
> "Copy
> > to Clipboard" button. Look if clipboard can be copied to a text editor.
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > 2018-04-27 15:02 GMT+02:00 Sky Diver <skydivergm at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Thank you rutile.
> >>
> >> @Gilles Caulier, evidently the behavior is not consistent across
> >> platforms.
> >> I tried pasting the copied file into Windows Explorer (file system UI,
> >> similar to Nautilus for example) and the physical file is being
> >> pasted.
> >>
> >> Are you familiar with a different way to copy the entire path to
> >> clipboard?
> >> If not, then what's the correct way of turning this into a
> >> feature-request?
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:52 AM, rutile <rutile at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Linux, 5.8.0
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Sent from:
> >> > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.html
> >
> >
>
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