275282 - [rfe] use canvas edit images in the compose window

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

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[rfe] use canvas edit images in the compose window

simple canvas support (the thing that vlad and pav did for moz dev day) in mail
compose, so I can right click images in the mail compose window and then monkey
with them (crop, draw, erase...note:  we already have resize). 

I'd like to be able to easily insert a blank image, resize it, and then use my
mouse to scribble.  On send, it converts to a gif.  

Maybe I've been sending too many screen shots lately, but I think I'd really use
this feature like this:

1) do a "prtscn" to get a screen shot into the clipboard or right click-copy an
image from firefox
2) paste into mail 
3) right click to edit, and crop the image down to just what I want to send
4) scribble some red pixels to highlight what I want to point out
5) send

vlad / stuart, could canvas be used do this?

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Canvas could be used for this, but it's really just a vector canvas.  You'd have
to do some hefty work around it to make it actually work this way; e.g.
right-click an image and convert it to something editable, and then implement a
mini paint program on top of it.  Certainly doable, but not at all trivial.