[digiKam-users] Copy file path and name to clipboard from thumbs view

[Gilles Caulier]

The Gimp error is normal. Gimp attends to find image data in clipboard, not
test with url. Open an image in DK image editor, Edit/Select all, and
Edit/Copy the image contents. Go to gimp and paste.gimp. Here it work like
a charm under Linux.

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 11:04, Frédéric Da Vitoria <davito9w at free.fr> a
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I just tested using Notepad++ and The Gimp. Copy / Paste does not do
> anything. I tried using Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Ins and the "Copy" option in the
> thumbnail's contextual menu, same results.
>
> Notepad++ reacts as if there was no text to paste :
>
>
> and Gimp does the same :
>
> The Gimp's message seems a little more informative, but unfortunately the
> message is the same if the clipboard is empty or if it contains no image
> data.
>
> Drag & Drop works fine both with Notepad++ and with The Gimp.
>
> Gilles, I was a little surprised that you expected Copy to copy the name
> of the image instead of it's contents. From your answer, I later realized
> that you expected Copy to work on both.
>
> Using Nirsoft's InsideClipboard tool, I found that DK did indeed put
> something in the clipboard, but that Notepad++ and The Gimp could not
> understand it. So I checked copying from different tools as a source (an
> image viewer, Windows Explorer and so on). The image viewer I checked
> copies the image contents, and works only with The Gimp. Windows Explorer
> and another file manager don't work with Notepad++ or with The Gimp, just
> like DigiKam. I could not find any tool which would copy both the contents
> and the path in such a way that it worked with Notepad++ and The Gimp.
> OTOH, copying from DK towards Windows Explorer or another file manager
> works.
>
> My conclusion is that the Windows clipboard is much less tolerant than the
> Linux clipboard, the Windows clipboard contains either a file (actually not
> the file itself, but data allowing to identify it), text, image (or
> probably music and so on) but not several types of data at once. So that
> copying from DK can either work with a file manager, a text editor or a
> graphics software but not with all at once. Currently, DK places file data.
> I have no idea why software aren't as smart with the clipboard as with Drag
> & Drop. Maybe some other text editor is smart enough to parse the clipboard
> and fetch the file path from what DK places there?
>
> Note that DK does not always copy file data to the clipboard. If you edit
> an image and select some part of it, DK copies image data instead, which
> makes perfect sense IMO, so that you can then paste to The Gimp.
>
> InsideClipboard can save a digest of the clipboard contents. I you find it
> useful, I can post digests taken in different situations.
>
> Regards
>
> DigiKam 7.9.0
> Build date: 03/12/2022 14:49 (target: RelWithDebInfo)
> Revision: 99d199a7ebc10fae20afffc316ce34815f7d1c9d
>
> Windows 11 64 bits
>
> Le 07/03/2023 à 07:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> The copy and paste in digiKam is based on the QClipBoard class from Qt :
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qclipboard.html
>
> In the album view, we take the item urls and we share the data to the
> clipboard as text list. It's a very simple mechanism.
>
> - paste into GEdit : https://i.imgur.com/1UF93ej.png
> - paste into VIM: https://i.imgur.com/SeGJLZ4.png
> - paste into Kate : https://i.imgur.com/eltQHZ4.png
>
> Note : the same mechanism is used with drag and drop...
>
> Best
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 06:06, Shel Ritter <shelritterbmw at yahoo.com> <shelritterbmw at yahoo.com> a écrit :
>
> Hey Robert ,
>
> I was interested in seeing how people might respond to this question. I was surprised at Gilles's answer as I've never seen an option to copy an image file path in my older v7.3.0,  wondering if it was a feature added in a newer build. I'm running it in Windows 7 and that 'Copy' menu option does just copy the image as would be expected. When I want to get the actual path to a file, I right-click a thumbnail and select the 'Open In File Manager' menu option which brings up Windows Explorer at the folder that contains the file. I would think Linux would bring up whatever file manager you have installed.
>
> Shel
>
> On 3/6/2023 9:31 AM, plowmail2010 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Windows 7 64-bit
> digiKam 7.9.0
>   Build date: 12/3/2022 2:49 PM (target: RelWithDebInfo)
>   Revision: 99d199a7ebc10fae20afffc316ce34815f7d1c9d
>   Branch: HEAD
>
> Thanks, Gilles, but selecting a thumbnail and copy/paste into a text editor or Paint produces nothing.
> Pasting onto the Windows desktop or into Windows Explorer produces a copy of the image's file.
>
> Same result with copy/paste outside digiKam: select a file name in Windows Explorer or Xplorer2, copy/paste into text editor or Paint produces nothing.  Pastes the file OK onto the desktop or into Windows Explorer.
>
> Pasting into GIMP produced the message "There is no image data in the clipboard...".
>
> Does the copy/paste work in linux?
> Is this a peculiarity of the clipboard in Windows 7?
>
> Robert DiGrazia
>
>
> --
> Frédéric Da Vitoria
>
>
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