Does this work for anyone using Fedora?
For both F8 and F9, using Firefox or Seamonkey, if I drag an image from the browser onto an OOo Writer or Draw document, all I get is the HTML text for the image.
From discussions online, it seems that these same apps running on Windows or other Linux distributions give more useful results: you get the image in the OOo document.
The same drag/drop into Gimp loads the image there, and I can copy/paste from Gimp into OOo. Drag/drop from gthumb into OOo works fine.
Does anyone else get this result? Have I missed a setting somewhere?
TIA
<Joe
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 17:56 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
For both F8 and F9, using Firefox or Seamonkey, if I drag an image from the browser onto an OOo Writer or Draw document, all I get is the HTML text for the image.
Same here, I get the HTML source for the link to the image. But if I drag an image onto Evolution, I get the image (so long as it was just an image in the page, not an image in a link). I've usually found that dragging things out of Firefox generates bookmarks of some kind, rather than copies the content.
If I drag select around the image, I can do a copy and paste of the image into OpenOffice.org.
Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 17:56 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
For both F8 and F9, using Firefox or Seamonkey, if I drag an image from the browser onto an OOo Writer or Draw document, all I get is the HTML text for the image.
Same here, I get the HTML source for the link to the image. ... If I drag select around the image, I can do a copy and paste of the image into OpenOffice.org.
I see exactly the same thing.
What's odd is that it /seems/ to be specific to Fedora (or maybe Linux). This operation works correctly under Windows, and under other Linux distros (by some reports I've seen).
I'm wondering who should deal with the issue: Fedora, Mozilla, or OOo? I have no idea what the problem might be, or how to track down more information, so I hesitate to file a report.
<Joe
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 16:14 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
What's odd is that it /seems/ to be specific to Fedora (or maybe Linux). This operation works correctly under Windows, and under other Linux distros (by some reports I've seen).
I'm wondering who should deal with the issue: Fedora, Mozilla, or OOo? I have no idea what the problem might be, or how to track down more information, so I hesitate to file a report.
Dragging an image from other places works. e.g. Dragging and dropping from Nautilus, or an image from a webpage in Opera works. Trying the same (in Opera, again) with an image that's within a link does not. My guess would be to make your bug report with Firefox.