I want to drag and drop photos out of Aspect into other applications. In my case, directly drag them into the Telegram Messenger. This works fine as long as I have only a single jpg. Once Its a RAW+JPG it does not work.
Even if it’s only a JPG, it only works with the thumbnail, I can not drag a picture that is in “big view” move.
Expected behavior
I would like to be able to drag and drop all kind of pictures into other applications.
Ideally, I could even choose (in the settings?) if I have a RAW+JPG if I want to drag the JPG or the RAW.
Not sure if this is rather a feature request, but for me, it belongs here as well:
Using STR+C to copy a photo out of the App and then using STR+V to post into the file browser or another app (like telegram) does not work. Neither with a single JPG nor with a RAW+JPG.
Actually on Ubuntu it works to drag and drop the JPG of a RAW+JPG pair out into other applications (Telegram in this case). But into the file browser does not work. All of this is strangely inconsistent.
The way RAW/JPEG pairs are handled is that one of the two files just gets hidden from the workspace. So when you have a thumbnail that is displayed as DSCF001.JPG+RAW, its actually just the JPEG file and if you see DSCF001.RAW+JPG then it’s the RAW file. So dragging the latter into an application might not work when the target application doesn’t know how to handle RAW photos.
The drag’n’drop protocol on X11 is complicated and not documented well, and as a result there are still issues in our implementation that render it incompatible with some applications. In fact, my hope right now is that we can possibly avoid putting in much more work into this and instead focus work on a new Wayland backend, as more and more distributions are switching over now.
Implementing a Wayland application as a whole isn’t really any simpler than implementing an X11 (on the contrary…), but the protocols are defined on a higher level and the documentation for extension protocols tends to be better. Overall, this is unfortunately an area where Linux is a lot harder to support than either Windows or macOS.
Still on Windows dragging files into the file manager does not work, when it’s a pair.
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Interesting! Actually, Ubuntu by now uses Wayland by default (might be different if you upgraded from an older version.)
Now I tried out both. On Wayland, drag and drop does not work at all. While on X11 at least the drag & drop into telegram works, but not into the file manager.
When I drag&drop photos out of the app into a folder that is on the same partition, the files get not copied out of the library, but actually moved out of the library. I get a message: Files Deleted from File System - The following Files have been deleted from the individual photos folder at “D:\Fotos” Do you want to remove them from the catalog?
I would expect Aspect to only move a copy of the file, not move the source file here.