311621 - Add "Add Image to iPhoto Library" to contextual menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Misty De Meo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5
Build Identifier: 

In Safari, control-clicking an image offersan option in the contextual menu to import that image into 
iPhoto; I would greatly appreciate it if this feature were added into Camino, as well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jasper]

Hm I thought I had filled this bug, apperantly not. I'm confirming as I do think
this would be a great piece of integration.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I, like Jasper, also could have sworn this bug was filed. Smokey, can you find it?

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

You're probably thinking of bug 193950 (or bug 300044, which is the result of
the user trying to do bug 193950), or your bug 193950 comment 4, which suggested
filing this kind of bug :-)

BTW, it must only be Safari 2 that has this item.  And I still agree with
Bruce's reasoning in bug 193950 comment 3.

Comment 4

[Misty De Meo]

Yes, it is Safari 2 that added it.

I disagree with Bruce's comments, however; as you can tell from my requesting the feature. There are a 
number of circumstances in which there are legitimate reasons for wishing to do this; for instance, one 
may have a family member who has photos on their webpage, and may wish to add the photos they took 
to one's own iPhoto library.

Comment 5

[Jasper]

I see the point Bruce makes, but in I think that most usres will only use this
to easily move a familie or friends picture to iPhoto. If we would use his
reasoning we shouldn't allow users to copy any image anywhere including the
desktop, or allow them to save an image. That would just be rediculous.

The point of this enhancement would be to create an even more integrated
experience, I for one would really find this feature very handy. It's a feature
I talked about with bruce when he was doing the mailto: link support, I must
have forgotten to file the bug.

CCing Bruce to see if he could help us out implementing this.

Comment 6

[Shane Fenton]

I also would like to see this feature added, it has become one of the reasons I have started using Safari again. But if this feature (and a few others I'm searching for) were added to camino I could eliminate switching between browsers for a few little features. I think many users would appreciate having this feature - without it, importing to iphoto is rather time consuming.

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

can someone see if this is just an appleEvent we need to send them? we can probably just write a small script in a NSString and have the AS runtime interpret/execute it.

Comment 8

[Christopher Henderson]

Using sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys Safari, it seems that Safari downloads the image to a folder like /private/tmp/SafariiPhoto6ImagesSuudKO, then adds it to iPhoto. We could do the same, with something like the following AppleScript:

tell application "iPhoto"
	import from "/private/tmp/CaminoRandom/lolcat.jpg"
end tell

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I confirmed a while ago that the AppleEvents Safari is sending correspond to the AppleScript snippet in comment 8.

hendy did a bunch of additional investigation even before that; see http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/User:Hendy:ImageToIPhoto.  The remaining issue is getting the image into the temporary folder with the correct filename and without showing our save or download UI.

Comment 10

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]