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What software do you wish that existed?
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I'm not the person you replied to, but the one and only thing I miss about Windows is being able to paste a web address directly into the file picker.
Say I find an image here on Lemmy that I want to share with a friend on FB Messenger. On Windows, I could just copy the URL of the image, go to FB, "upload image" and paste the URL into the file picker dialog.
On Linux, I have to save it to my disk first.
Holy shit what?? I've been using Windows since 95 and didn't have the slightest idea you could do that.
It's not really advertised or intuitive in any way, so that doesn't surprise me. In fact, I have no recollection of how I came upon this feature. Maybe I discovered it in a fever dream, maybe it was on a lifehacker.com listicle. I'm not even sure it's supposed to be a feature, for all we know it could be an odd quirk, some legacy code in explorer.exe. The inner machinations of Windows are an enigma.
I never knew you could do that. Maybe I'll try my hands at implementing that on the kde file picker.
If you ever get around to it, let me know. I'd buy you a drink!
so do the same and paste the link on facebook. I thought facebook shows image links on chats.
I could just send the link, but I'd rather it be displayed directly in the chat. In any case, this was just an example. When I wanted to upload my avatar to lemmy, I had to download the image I found online and then upload it via the file picker. It'd be more convenient to just point the file picker directly to the URL of where the image is hosted in the first place, which Windows' file picker dialog allows (or at least it did on Windows 7).
Coincidentally, I was struggling and wishing I could do something similar a few days ago. Didn't know Windows could do it, that's awesome. I think, ideally, more software should accept pasting an image in input fields, without even the need to open a file picker. But the file picker handling URLs sounds cool as well.
You're not the person I replied to, but thanks for sharing :^)