When entering a URL in the text entry area, do not make original URL inaccessible
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Gwibber |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug is about *sending* a shortened URL, not viewing one in other people's entries like bug 380842 and bug 384223.
Scenario:
1. I have a URL in my clipboard http://
2. I have "Automatically shorten pasted URLs" turned on
3. I paste http://
4. This immediately turns into a shortened URL without giving me any chance to see I pasted http://
5. The short URL looks as meaningless as any other short URL, so I send the message out.
6. I at best confuse my readers by sending them a meaningless link, or at worst embarrass myself by sending them a revealing link.
I would therefore like URL shortening not to be totally transparent. I am not sure what the UI should be. I am happy with automatic, ie I don't want to have to paste the URL into some dialog box and hit 'OK'. Perhaps there could be some kind of separate status area displayed during composition that shows something like this for all short URLs currently in the text entry area?
http://
http://
gwibber wouldn't need to look these up again since it requested the URLs in the first place.
Changed in gwibber: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This isn't really related to it, but, as i do, you could use parcellite, a clipboard manager that says on your notification area. You click there and you have all your copied links and you can alternate trough all them.
It's not an intuitive solution as yours, but with that i've never posted a "revealing", embarassing link to Gwibber.
Other idea could be that after the url shortening, if we putted our mouse over the link, gwibber could "reveal" the link beyond that shortened one, even in the editor mode. It's simple and not strikes usability with more GUI's and options.
These are my just my thoughts...