GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661610
Implement import to Documents
Last modified: 2021-07-05 11:30:54 UTC
Documents should ship a browser plugin for inline quick preview of PDF documents. It should basically be an embedded version of our fullscreen preview (maybe not using the dark theme?) and it should have an additional option offering to "Save in Documents" directly from the browser.
My guess is that Cosimo is talking about the mythical "import to Documents" flow. You choose a document from a mail client or browser, it lets you preview it, and optionally insert it into the database used by the application. I am not aware of any designs in this direction. Once we have those we can work out the specifics of the implementation - a plugin or something else.
Downloading is one possible way to import. Another could be from a mail client or even Files. I suspect that this will be a part of our sharing/sandboxing designs. We'd also need to decide how it would work in terms of the physical file itself. Would it get copied to ~/Documents, for example?
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