GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766162
Can't export photos from online accounts
Last modified: 2016-06-27 07:18:01 UTC
I was going to export a photo, so I could use it in a tweet. It looked like it exported fine, with no errors, but when I looked in my Photos folder, the Export folder was empty.
It didn't work because export was written with "editing local images" in mind. I forgot to consider the remote case. /me dumps some thoughts Were you trying to export a local image or something from your Facebook/Flickr/Google accounts? I see the export functionality, as it is today, as a workaround to paper over gaps in our feature set. Ideally, we would be able to use "share" to (a) attach to an email, (b) upload to an online account, (c) copy to a USB stick, etc.. Till that happens, we let you export to a pre-defined location and expect you to use the file manager to do the rest. (Maybe we will never be able to cover everything and we will always need "export"?) So, if you were trying to upload a local file to Twitter, then it can be argued that export won't help you that much. No matter what you do, you will end up with a file manager. But if you wanted to post something from an online account, then maybe it makes it easier. How often do people want to take an image from Flickr/Facebook/Google and post it to Twitter? Aren't there apps that mirror your posts across various online services? Now that Umang is working on sharing (bug 751181), I wonder how it will play with export. Do we merge it into the sharing dialog as "Files" (share with the file manager)?
(In reply to Debarshi Ray from comment #1) > Were you trying to export a local image or something from your > Facebook/Flickr/Google accounts? Obviously, you were trying to export images from Google. It's right there in the title of the bug itself.
It makes sense to me that you should be able to export a photo that is stored remotely - otherwise it'd be easy to get confused about what you can do with which photos.
Created attachment 330417 [details] [review] base-item: Add a create_filename_fallback pure virtual method
Created attachment 330418 [details] [review] Allow remote BaseItems to be exported
Created attachment 330419 [details] [review] base-item: Simplify photos_base_item_can_edit
Comment on attachment 330417 [details] [review] base-item: Add a create_filename_fallback pure virtual method Pushed to master and gnome-3-20.