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

Tue Mar 7 10:12:06 GMT 2023

I can confirm that digiKam 7.9.0 under Windows the copy and paste from
icon-view to notepad do not work. I don't know why...

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 11:10, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> 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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