Bug 26731 – Feature request: Open image

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Miloš Popović]

Could you add „Open image“ in right-click menu on image file.

There is alredy an option „Open image in new window“, but I would like to open image in external program (so that I can for example read EXIF data).

It should be easy to do ;)

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

This sounds like a feature that a web browser using WebKit may want to implement, rather than something that WebKit would implement itself.

[Miloš Popović]

The reason I am posting here is that, while translating Webkit Gtk to Serbian language, I saw some similar features implemented directly into Webkit.

Thanks for quick Reply, I値l send this to Gnome Epiphany team.

[Jan Alonzo]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The reason I am posting here is that, while translating Webkit Gtk to Serbian
> language, I saw some similar features implemented directly into Webkit.
> 
> Thanks for quick Reply, I値l send this to Gnome Epiphany team.
> 

Thanks for filing it anyway. Ephy/any app should at least add a callback handler to the menu item so they can launch whatever the preferred app is for opening an image, saving files to disk, etc.. for example.

[Christian Dywan]

It's impossible to implement outside of WebKitGTK+ because there is no API to access an image that is not an anchor. We still need a way to access an element at a particular position within the web view.

[Miloš Popović]

This bug should be reopened!

[antistress]

Christian Dywan  : isn't it what WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15 now has ?

"A new function, webkit_web_view_get_hit_test_result, which allows to do a 'hit test' on the coordinates specified by a mouse event. A hit test provides context information about that point in the document, like whether it's an image, a link, an input box, etc."

[Jan Alonzo]

antistress is right. This is doable in 1.1.15. Please file a bug against your browser to implement this feature.

Thanks.