Working on improvements to QuickShare

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FWIW, I have a bit of a todo list here, we can discuss things WRT the
>> plasmoid if you want.
>
> Sounds great! I'm all ears :)

The most important request is a Nextcloud share plugin. If you could
work on that it would be brilliant.

Improving the KDE Connect integration would be brilliant as well. The
biggest problem in this one is the UI I did for choosing device, I
wasn't inspired that day!

Another very interesting thing, would be to get some kind of handle
from applications' window with the URL they're holding, so we could
easily drop into the plugin. Thinking of applications like libreoffice
or okular. For most applications this information is available, we
need to expose it to the user in a meaningful way.

>> How about implementing smarter sorting and keyboard support?
>> I'm not fond of "Remember" options because they add complexity and
>> make it hard to get back to the original state.
>
> Hmm, perhaps could try and see how it feels. I just miss being able to
> drag+drop -> paste url. Also, at least for now, I feel like the other
> purpose options are not very useful in the sense that, for stuff like send
> to and save as, chances are one won't normally think to use the QuickShare
> plasmoid, and if the primary purpose in their mind for the plasmoid is
> pastebin/imagebin-ing, then the other options may come across as clutter if
> one has to see and handle them over and over. At least that's what I think.

Drag&Drop + Enter Press would be essentially the same, but with
control that you didn't mess anything up.

The main purpose isn't pastebin/imagebin, but to be able to share what
we're working on with our colleagues and friends efficiently. Pastebin
helps there, but only for a very limited set of use-cases.

>> That's already implemented.
>> Note there's a "Remember" option in the last step.
>
>
> Ah, you're right, now that I've tested it again it works. Not sure why it
> seemed not to work the first time. Maybe it makes sense to just make this
> the default behavior? Since I can't think of a use case where someone would
> not copy the result url.

Why would that be the default behavior?
If the user checks it he knows that the next time the plasmoid will be
overwritting his clipboard contents with a url. It's fair that it's
his decision.

Aleix