Re: downloading images

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Ruddiger eVil wrote:

> Just installed gnome and am using the epiphany browser since it is 
> neat, But when trying to save an image, I click it and drag it to the 
> folder I want to put it into, and for some reason it asks me if I want 
> to download it? which is strange, and if I say yes, it downloads the 
> image again, even tho it is on my screen, taking more time than 
> necessary.

Thanks for your feedback!

The reason that Epiphany presents a dialog window when you drag an image 
or a link to a folder, is that there are two possible actions: either 
create a link to the (image) URL or download it. Epiphany does not know 
in advance which of the two you meant to do, unless you use a keyboard 
modifier: pressing and holding the Ctrl key while dragging the image 
to the target folder will download it immedeately. Pressing and holding 
Ctrl and Shift together while dragging will create a link.

I don't know if there is a good reason for downloading the image again 
or whether this is something that can be fixed in Epiphany (as opposed 
to Mozilla).

Question to all: shouldn't "download" be the default action, without 
further questions to the user, unless the drag target is the bookmarks 
editor? How often are Nautilus URL links used, anyway?

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