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[feature request] open local files possible? #70

Closed uwahl closed 7 months ago

uwahl commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to open local files either in documents or download folder? In the moment the program refuses, i.e. is not acknowledged as a "nomal" URI...

timsueberkrueb commented 1 year ago

I see. You could maybe try an url of the form file:///path/to/your/file for a file named /path/to/your/file. However, note that the generated shortcuts are Ubuntu touch applications which are confined/sandboxed: they do not have access to arbitrary files. They do have access to certain directories, though, thus if you move the local files into a directory the app has access to, it may work.

See this page on the Ubports documentation for the app directories. To find the application name, try something like ls /home/phablet/.cache | grep webber.

uwahl commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the advice, but Webber refuses to create a shortcut. It stops the process with a DNS-error message and doesn't accept the local file address of the type file:///path/to/your/file. Webber seems to wait for a real URI. By the way, Morph itself opens the very same local address file (inside of the allowed Downloads-folder) without any problem.

timsueberkrueb commented 1 year ago

Okay. To implement this feature, one would need to check if the provided string is a file:// uri (or alternatively, if it is an invalid url, check if it is a valid path). Additionally, one could add the option for shortcuts to access certain directories (e.g. the Downloads folder) because by default they do not have access beyond the default ones.

uwahl commented 1 year ago

Yes, it would be helpful to implement accessing the Morph standard folder /home/phablet/Downloads for a file of the type file:///home/phablet/myfile which can be opened flawlessly by Morph (e.g .txt, .html, .jpg,. png or .jpg files)

Am Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:10:45 -0700, Tim Süberkrüb schrieb:

Okay. To implement this feature, one would need to check if the provided string is a file:// uri (or alternatively, if it is an invalid url, check if it is a valid path). Additionally, one could add the option for shortcuts to access certain directories (e.g. the Downloads folder) because by default they do not have access beyond the default ones.

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uwahl commented 7 months ago

...local files still not allowed. Webber comment:..“URL scheme ist not allowed“...

uwahl commented 2 months ago

Any progress since to open local files...? Thanks a lot for your work! 🙂