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cassidyjames / ephemeral

A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS
https://cassidyjames.com
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Share URL to other apps besides browsers #195

Open cassidyjames opened 4 years ago

cassidyjames commented 4 years ago

Probably requires using contractor or something, or maybe listing apps that can handle URLs.

4jNsY6fCVqZv commented 4 years ago

What apps and use cases did you have in mind?

cassidyjames commented 4 years ago

To make it easier to open the current URL in other non-browser apps, i.e. instead of copy-pasting the URL from the URL entry into a third-party app. elementary OS has Contractor which works similarly to Android's share intent to let apps pass data back and forth without hard-coding support for one another. In this case, I could see it useful to be able to email a link, maybe share it with chat apps, etc.

alcinnz commented 4 years ago

One use case I can imagine is to allow setting any image you find online as your desktop wallpaper.

Btw, I'm interested in doing the same thing in Odysseus, I'm just uncertain about the details.

cassidyjames commented 4 years ago

@alcinnz I think that's a bit separate, as it would be file-specific instead of just sharing URLs themselves. But yeah, something to also think about.