I’m not the person you replied to, but the one and only thing I miss about Windows is being able to paste a web address directly into the file picker.
Say I find an image here on Lemmy that I want to share with a friend on FB Messenger. On Windows, I could just copy the URL of the image, go to FB, “upload image” and paste the URL into the file picker dialog.
It’s not really advertised or intuitive in any way, so that doesn’t surprise me. In fact, I have no recollection of how I came upon this feature. Maybe I discovered it in a fever dream, maybe it was on a lifehacker.com listicle. I’m not even sure it’s supposed to be a feature, for all we know it could be an odd quirk, some legacy code in explorer.exe. The inner machinations of Windows are an enigma.
Say I find an image here on Lemmy that I want to share with a friend on FB Messenger. On Windows, I could just copy the URL of the image, go to FB, “upload image” and paste the URL into the file picker dialog.
so do the same and paste the link on facebook. I thought facebook shows image links on chats.
I’m not the person you replied to, but the one and only thing I miss about Windows is being able to paste a web address directly into the file picker.
Say I find an image here on Lemmy that I want to share with a friend on FB Messenger. On Windows, I could just copy the URL of the image, go to FB, “upload image” and paste the URL into the file picker dialog.
On Linux, I have to save it to my disk first.
Holy shit what?? I’ve been using Windows since 95 and didn’t have the slightest idea you could do that.
It’s not really advertised or intuitive in any way, so that doesn’t surprise me. In fact, I have no recollection of how I came upon this feature. Maybe I discovered it in a fever dream, maybe it was on a lifehacker.com listicle. I’m not even sure it’s supposed to be a feature, for all we know it could be an odd quirk, some legacy code in explorer.exe. The inner machinations of Windows are an enigma.
so do the same and paste the link on facebook. I thought facebook shows image links on chats.
I never knew you could do that. Maybe I’ll try my hands at implementing that on the kde file picker.
If you ever get around to it, let me know. I’d buy you a drink!