SrainApp
Proposal: Support for picture/file uploading
This is a very basic proposal for a new function.
I'd like to work on srain for the support of image/file uploading. And below are functions need to be supported:
Functions need to be supported
- Upload pictures/file from disk
- Upload pictures/file from Clipboard
- Preview of the picture uploaded
- Upload progress( Is it supported in current IRC protocol for srain ?)
This issue is part of #79.
The picture/file upload function should be implement via plugin(any script language supported by libpeas, for now, python2/3, javascript, lua is supported). So we should finish #79 before dealing with this issue.
An important things is that IRC is a PLAIN TEXT protocol, DCC can send file but it require Client-To-Client connection -- which is not suitable for channel.
According to the leagcy upload plugin. We can post the specified image/file to public pastebin and return an URL to achieve the purpose of sending image/file. The key point is what interfaces should be exposed by Srain.
In my option, Srain should offer such interfaces:
- When a plugin register, add a button on the plugin pane. for example:
- Allow plugin access input text view of window (a.k.a.
SuiWindow->input_text_view)
I think these are enough.
For the function you mentioned:
Upload pictures/file from disk Upload pictures/file from Clipboard
Plugin can create a GtkFileChooser to do this.
Preview of the picture uploaded
This is stuff of SuiMessage, any subclass of SuiMessage will try to fetch the content of URLs in message. I am working on this part.
Upload progress( Is it supported in current IRC protocol for srain ?)
Plugin has abalitiy to change UI, I think it is not impossible, but not a high priority task.
