Ubuntu
webbrowser-app package

Sharing a URL while text is selected could add the text to the shared ContentItem

Bug #1600331 reported by Stuart Langridge
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
New
Undecided
Unassigned
webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

If some text is selected when the user selects Share in the web browser, the browser could add that selected text to the ContentItem it shares (as well as keeping the URL set to the URL of the page). This would make it possible to build apps like Android's Xcerpt (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transcendentlabs.xcerpt) which formats the text and link into a nice image for uploading to Twitter.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Stuart Langridge (sil) wrote :

(It may be useful to add a "Share" item to the menu that pops up when text is selected, whcih does the same thing: shares a ContentItem with text="the selected text", url="the page URL".

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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