paste from other app: text/uri-list (gdk4 FileList) not handled
Operating System: Linux
Description of the feature
While GIMP handles drag+dropping files from, for example, Nautilus, it does not handle copy-pasting them. Instead, copy-pasting seems limited to image data in the clipboard. This requires the complete image to be moved into RAM. It would be great if GIMP could support pasting text/uri-list
the same way it supports grag+dropping image files. Example for a copy that does not provide image/*
data.
$ gimp-test-clipboard-2.0 -l
text/plain;charset=utf-8
text/uri-list
application/vnd.portal.files
application/vnd.portal.filetransfer
UTF8_STRING
TARGETS
TIMESTAMP
Use cases
- An alternative way to do the same thing via keyboard shortcuts that drag+drop provides.
- Going via pipelines like GdkPixBuf, in some cases, drops information like color profiles. So handling pasted images via the original file like drag+drop does looks like the better default to me.
- We are unsure if we will provide the image data via clipboard in Loupe (potential new GNOME image viewer) since we had some issues with that.