Choosing from Firefox context menu to view a selected image should open the default GNOME image viewer

[antistress]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

In Epiphany, when you choose to view the selected image from context menu option, that image is displayed in the default GNOME image viewer (most of the time Eye of GNOME)
In Firefox (Firefox 3 beta 3 in hardy alpha 5 for instance), that image is displayed within the navigator over a blank page which is useless
Selecting a picture to view it should open that picture in default GNOME image viewer

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i think this is a valid feature request. Please search in bugzilla.mozilla.org if there is already such an enhancement bug open for this. Let us know.

[antistress (antistress)]

i've searched for "gnome image", "gnome picture", "gnome eog", "eye of gnome" and "view image gnome" and didn't find that king of bug report

[antistress (antistress)]

shall i fill a bug report on bugzilla.mozilla.org also ?

[antistress (antistress)]

Please, could you tell me why status is still incomplete ?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

yes, please file a bug and let us know.

[antistress (antistress)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

In Epiphany (a GTK navigator designed for GNOME), when you choose to view the selected image from context menu option, that image is displayed in the default GNOME image viewer (most of the time Eye of GNOME)

In Firefox (Firefox 3 beta 3 in Ubuntu Hardy alpha 6 for instance), that image is displayed within the navigator over a blank page which is useless

Selecting a picture to view it should open that picture in default GNOME image viewer

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:
image is displayed within the navigator over a blank page which is quite useless

Expected Results:
Selecting a picture to view it should open that picture in default GNOME image viewer for better integration

[antistress (antistress)]

Bug 421914 – Choosing from Firefox context menu to view a selected image should open the default GNOME image
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421914

[antistress (antistress)]

Maybe this bug is related (but not duplicate) :
Bug 296443 – Mozilla should follow shared mime freedesktop specs (determining MIME type of a file and the default app for it)

[antistress (antistress)]

Maybe this bug is related :
Bug 296443 – Mozilla should follow shared mime freedesktop specs (determining
MIME type of a file and the default app for it)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296443

[Gerald Dixon Cummings (420buddzz)]

For the millionth time, WHY CAN I NOT VIEW ANY IMAGES(pictures, videos,etc.) WITH UBUNTU???... SOMEONE/THING ANSWER MY SIMPLE DAMN QUESTION PLEASE.

[Gerald Dixon Cummings (420buddzz)]

SHOULD I JUST BUST THIS COMPUTER AND TRY AND SAVE FOR ANOTHER AND GO BACK TO WINDOWS???... or JUST BUY AN OLD 286, at least I got to view IMAGES/PICTURES/ETC.???...

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Is this still a problem on 3.0 final? Im not sure it seems that bug is a more general bug about intergration.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Added upstream bug report to this one. There is no reason to get mad or discouraged sometimes bugs dont get fixed right away and can take time to find the reason this is happening.
Do you have firefox-gnome-support installedd? does this happen in 3.0 final?

Bug 296443 is a more genral bug than yours but seems if it gets fixed it might fix your issue.
Have you tried to change settings? like in applications menu in firefox preferences? atleast as a work around until it is fixed(implemented

Im fairly sure you can set pictures to open in what you want it to either in gnome/kde/firefox. Its late night here i cant look tonight and busy most of the week, but there is nothing that you cant look for.

Alexander is there a setting for this in about:preferneces?

[Simetrical+ff (simetrical+ff)]

Yes, the image opens up in Firefox over a blank page. It does not attempt to open a separate application. This is how Firefox behaves on Windows as well, to my recollection, and I assume on all other platforms. It seems quite natural to me -- I don't expect choosing to view the image to open up a new application. Is that how any other browser than Epiphany works?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I thought there was a config option you can change in about:config, atleast as a work around but if there is maybe its more Ubuntu bug since we can build with it enabled. I would need confirmation on that though, I'm starting a very sleepless and busy day but i will check email most of the day, If you find it please let me know. I havent gotten an answer from Alexander yet but hes busy at this time as well

[antistress (antistress)]

Simetrical : you must not compare Windows with MacOS or GNOME since they don't have the same level of integration and therefore user experience is not the same.
I was a windows user and i now am a GNOME user and, like GNOME users, i expect that "display the picture" option launches the default image viewer

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

If you go into Firefox > Edit >prefferences > applications you will be able to set the view of your choice.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Launchpad bug on this is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/195105

[antistress (antistress)]

therefore, maybe that setting (opening default image viewer) should be default setting in Ubuntu ?

[Simetrical+ff (simetrical+ff)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Simetrical : you must not compare Windows with MacOS or GNOME since they don't
> have the same level of integration and therefore user experience is not the
> same.
> I was a windows user and i now am a GNOME user and, like GNOME users, i expect
> that "display the picture" option launches the default image viewer

Well, I'm also a GNOME user, and I don't expect that. I would be fairly annoyed if it worked that way, in fact. Is this in the HIG anywhere, or is it just your opinion that GNOME apps should work this way? I don't see why Mozilla should be inconsistent cross-platform unless there's a demonstrable platform-specific convention that requires it.

[Aryeh Gregor (simetrical+launchpad)]

Copying comment from upstream bug: I would be fairly annoyed if it worked this way, personally. Is this in the HIG anywhere, or is it just the bug filer's (and Epiphany authors') opinion that GNOME apps should work this way?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Simetrical wrote:
> Copying comment from upstream bug: I would be fairly annoyed if it
> worked this way, personally. Is this in the HIG anywhere, or is it just
> the bug filer's (and Epiphany authors') opinion that GNOME apps should
> work this way?
>
>
Problem with setting gnome apps to be used by default is kde users use
firefox (kubuntu users) and they may not have or want gnome libs or apps
on their system. How do we work around this with a default setting.

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

[Aryeh Gregor (simetrical+launchpad)]

If this were a GNOME-specific change, and it were made downstream by Ubuntu, I assume it could be put in the firefox-gnome-support package. That seems to be installed by default in Ubuntu, but I assume not Kubuntu. If it were upstream, I don't know.

[RyanNerd (ryan-jentzsch)]

This bug is over 10 years old. I am using Linux Mint 19 (which has Gnome bindings). In the nightly build -- right clicking on an image and bringing up the context menu then selecting `View Image` just opens the image from the source centered in a web page. No image viewers are invoked. This in my opinion is expected behavior -- Chrome for instance doesn't have a 'view image' context menu. The closest is `Open image in new tab'. If you want to view the image in an external app then download the image and open it in the app of your choice.

I came here looking for bugs to fix. This is not really a bug and should be closed.

[Khharabaj3695 (khharabaj3695)]

Created attachment 9385529
same problem

Thanks from scoraralzwin1989.