255686 - application/x-moz-nativeimage *empty* when dragging or copying an image (outside of Windows?)

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect, P5)

Description

[Sebastien Laout]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

Hello,
When I drag and drop an image to an external application, or when I copy / paste
an image, the only way to get the image is through the
application/x-moz-nativeimage MIME type.
But associated data are of length... 0 byte !
At this rate, it's far difficult to even try to uncompress it ;-D

And it works under Windows:
A user of my program is used to this extention under Windows:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/copyimage
It add a popup menu item "Copy Image to Clipboard".
When he tried it under Linux he asked me to add support for pasting this image
in my application. The application/x-moz-nativeimage MIME type is the only one
relevant and is empty. It's impossible for me.
When dropping an image from Mozilla to my app, the application/x-moz-nativeimage
is also empty. At least there is the URL of the image but it loss all the magic
if I must re-download it.

In hope it could be fixed before firefox 1.0 & co...
At least by putting the image data, without regards of the MIME type of the
image (a guess can be done by the receiver application), or by putting the real
image MIME type as a source (eg. "image/png" if it's a PNG image...).

I would want to make KDE classes to understand drops from Mozilla.
And then be able to drop images in my program, in KolourPaint, in the desktop
(KDesktop could then create a file to put the data here)
, or in GNOME... It has no limit. Just that it currently provide no data.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag an image OR copy it (by http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/copyimage)
2. Drop it to an application (I suggest the one I created to debug drops ;-)
http://les83plus.free.fr/sebastien.laout/dndskan/index.html )
3. You will see the MIME type application/x-moz-nativeimage contain 0 byte: no
way to get the dragged/copied image

Actual Results:  
Nothing!


Expected Results:  
Put the image data associated with the provided MIME type.
Or put the real MIME type of the image (with the data, of course).


It works under Windows but not in other OSes (I only have Linux but I guess it's
the same for every UNIX or system running a X server).

Comment 1

[Sebastien Laout]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 2

[Reinout van Schouwen]

Is this just the Application Suite?
Otherwise please set the product/component correctly.

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Anyone still seeing tyhis bug (and on which current build)?

Comment 4

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.