Doesn't let you share several images

[Sebastien Bacher]

Using ota8 on bq devices, the share menu is disabled when more than one image is selected.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Being able to select a bunch of pictures on facebook seems something users do quite often nowadays and we got some grumpy user comments, could be worth trying to do for ota9 if it's easy enough? (Ken said that the content-hub has a multiselection mode so it's not a framework limitation)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

In fact that seems done on purpose, the code in PhotogridView has

" enabled: model.selectedFiles.length <= 1"

is the reason for that limitation still standing? (it's not stated with a comment so unsure why it's there)

Note that if you come from e.g dekko you can select several images and it works so it seems the feature is working

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

iirc, if we are initiating the share from the gallery app we purposely limited to 1 selection (possibly the same in camera?) because messaging-app could only handle a single attachment at a time (and think this is still the case). I don't know if content-hub api specifies a way for the source app to know whether or not the destination app supports multiple files in this case. I suppose we could allow multi-selection and if the destination app doesn't support it, it should notify the user.

I believe if another app requests the import from the gallery (i.e. dekko asks to attach images) then gallery should honor the multi-select request from content-hub.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@artmello, @uriboni
Please remove the restriction for single selection for sharing. But please test sharing with messaging-app and make sure it doesn't break if you try to share multiple photos. For now expected behavior of messaging-app would be to just show first photo until we add support for sending multiple photos in that app.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@tiagosh
Please add support for handling multiple photos shared from gallery/camera->messaging-app

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@tiagosh
And also when pressing the attach button in messaging-app it should set the multipleFiles flag to true in the content-hub api such that it works in this direction as well

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@tiagosh
same is true for videos and contacts, should handle multi-select in both directions

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package messaging-app - 0.1+16.04.20160224-0ubuntu1

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messaging-app (0.1+16.04.20160224-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Enable receiving multiple files from content-hub. (LP: #1523573)
  * Makes text in the swipe demo use relative positioning instead of
    absolute. (LP: #1518344)
  * Remove all line breaks from the text message preview and set a
    maximum line count, so the Text component correctly respect the
    elide property. (LP: #1532895)
  * Set width based on the screen size to avoid removing views from the
    stack when the app is resized. (LP: #1549352)

 -- Tiago Salem Herrmann <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:29:28 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gallery-app - 0.0.67+16.04.20160323.1-0ubuntu1

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gallery-app (0.0.67+16.04.20160323.1-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Arthur Mello ]
  * Enable sharing multiple files Notify user when trying to share
    photos and videos at the same time (LP: #1523573)
  * Set Window flag instead of Window state to toggle fullscreen mode
    for media viewer (LP: #1535397)

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk. added: po/sk.po

 -- Arthur Mello <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:03:08 +0000