GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 755594
Paste image buffer as file
Last modified: 2016-02-12 21:10:00 UTC
If I right-click on a image in my web browser and select "Copy Image" in the context menu it gets copied to my clipboard buffer. Make so I can just press Ctrl+V in a chat conversation with a user to to send him my clipboard buffer as a file over DCC. This would make it really smooth to share images. I would not need to download images to the disk, find it on the disk, and send it. I would just paste and the IRC client would assemble a file(stream) from my clipboard buffer. I can work on a image in GIMP and just copy & paste the buffer and send it. The clipboard contains metadata of which mimetype and file type it is.
GitHub lets you do this when using Chrome. https://help.github.com/articles/issue-attachments/
(In reply to Moo from comment #0) > Make so I can just press Ctrl+V in a chat conversation with a user to to > send him my clipboard buffer as a file over DCC. There are some plans to support paste services for non-text mime-types, but that would rather use something like imgur.com than DCC.
But using a hosted third-party service would make the image public available. It would be nice to paste it as a file sent privately over DCC directly to the user.
The problem with DCC is that it requires port forwarding and what not which makes it rather unreliable IMO. Then I'd much prefer to integrate with an online image pasting service, especially if a free software based one exists. It does make the image publicly available, but I'd rather have that than an unrealiable sharing mechanism.
Without DCC you cannot receive any files from anyone. That sounds pretty unreliable. People of other IRC clients expect to be able to send files to other IRC users over DCC.
I will be working on it soon.
Paste service support for images landed now, so closing. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 760346 ***