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Lymphatus / caesium-image-compressor

Caesium is an image compression software that helps you store, send and share digital pictures, supporting JPG, PNG, WebP and TIFF formats. You can quickly reduce the file size (and resolution, if you want) by preserving the overall quality of the image.
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Drag & Drop start automatically compressing #156

Closed gmmedia closed 1 year ago

gmmedia commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If I drag & drop an image to the desktop icon, Caesium opens, but the image is not added to the file list.

Describe the solution you'd like I have set my optimal settings in the tool already. Everything is ready to compress. It would be perfect, if I drag & drop the image to the desktop icon and Caesium automatically compresses the image and closes the tool. The original files moves to the bin...

Describe alternatives you've considered An option to convert all .jpg automatically to webp would be nice.

Lymphatus commented 2 years ago

I think a better option for achieving what you are saying is to add a context menu option in the file explorer (like in #26). So the process would be:

  1. Go to the file explorer
  2. Select images or folders
  3. Right Click -> Compress with Caesium
  4. App opens and automatically compresses

This give me the option to set multiple context menu entries, like one for only adding the images without starting the process and one that does all the work automatically.

gmmedia commented 2 years ago

I don't know if you can add your items to the new context menu in Windows 11. If not, that's 3 clicks. Drag&Drop is much faster.

Lymphatus commented 2 years ago

I don't know if you can add your items to the new context menu in Windows 11.

I guess it should be pretty much the same as Win 10, but I hadn't really investigated yet.

You're right about the multiple clicks required, but - intuitively - I would guess that dragging into the icon would just add the files without starting the process, like you do using the file explorer. That's just my opinion on a UX matter.

I may just add an option in the settings that changes the "drop on icon" behaviour between just adding and adding + compressing.

gmmedia commented 2 years ago

Yep

I may just add an option in the settings that changes the "drop on icon" behaviour between just adding and adding + compressing.

Lymphatus commented 1 year ago

Added in v2.3.0