can't import an image by drag&drop from a mounted *.zip file

[Loïc Alejandro]

- I have a zip with images inside
- I mount it (ubuntu option, I don't know if other distros do it)
- I try to open or import in Inkscape a png image that is in a folder in this mounted zip
- doesn't work

[nightrow (jb-benoit)]

Hi,
When you said a zip, it is a zip archive, or a zip drive ?
When you said it don't work, can you see the file in inkscape before clicking on open, or can't you simply not see it ?

[Pablo Trabajos (pajarico)]

Does it only happen with PNG or with any file? What Inkscape version?

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

Ok, things have changed now :
- I have two images in a zip archive. One jpg, and one png
- I mount the zip archive with the archive mounter
- I right click on the jpg or the png and choose "open with inkscape" >>> it works
- I open inkscape and then click the import button in inkscape and then import the jpg or the png >>> it works
- I drag&drop the jpg or the png from nautilus to inkscape >>> it doesn't work while it works with images not from a mounted zip archive.

Inkscape 0.46
Ubuntu 9.04
Gnome 2.26.1

[Pablo Trabajos (pajarico)]

> - I drag&drop the jpg or the png from nautilus to inkscape >>> it doesn't work while it works with images not from a mounted zip archive.

Could you start inkscape and nautilus from a terminal and catch the error messages?

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

If I open inkscape and nautilus from the terminal and try to import by drag&drop, there is no error message at all. Just nothing happens.
If I look the permissions by right clic > properties on the mounted zip archive, is says that the permissions couldn't be determined. I don't know if it is normal.

[Pablo Trabajos (pajarico)]

Does it happen with other apps?

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

yes, for example with gimp, the import by D&D works.

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

I mean no, I don't have the problem with Gimp.

[Kris (kris-degussem)]

Does this problem still occur with a recent Inkscape (development) version?

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

Yes, problem still occurs with Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886
Still nothing happening in terminal with nautilus and inkscape launched from terminal.