Whatever happened to Image Viewer?
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I have the Image Viewer app installed on my BQ M10 HD tablet. It works fine and is very useful. Today I decided to install it on my Nexus 4. I was surprised to find that is no longer listed in OpenStore. Can anyone explain why it has gone? Also, can anyone tell me if it is possible to copy it across from my tablet?
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@dtarrant Do you mean the gallery app?
https://open-store.io/app/com.ubuntu.gallery -
@thilov said in Whatever happened to Image Viewer?:
@dtarrant Do you mean the gallery app?
https://open-store.io/app/com.ubuntu.galleryNo, the Gallery app works fine. I'm talking about Image Viewer. I think it dates from 15.04, which may explain it's disappearence.
It's useful for quickly checking images without adding them to the Gallery.
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@dtarrant Maybe you mean the photo-scope which is not longer available.
I found it on this youtube video at about 3:40: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CsDFMIphtZkI can't remember to anything else.
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@thilov Not that Scope; definitely Image Viewer app which I got from OpenStore. The icon is a daisy overlaid by a magnifying glass. Anyhow, many thanks for your suggestion.
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@dtarrant I remember the app. Was it this one
http://www.mardy.it/imaginario/
If it was open source and is just unmaintained, then you might be able to find the source code and maybe take over maintainership yourself, or maybe someone else steps up.
Some old stuff is here https://uappexplorer.com/apps?type=application&category=graphics
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@doniks No, it wasn't Imaginario. That app is available in OpenStore and I have it installed. As you suggested, I looked at the old stuff in uappexplorer, but no Image Viewer. It's installed on my tablet, so I might try poking about in the file system. Maybe I can find a click, or the author's name. It seems a shame not to preserve it if we can. When I use the file manager to look at downloads and click on a jpg file, Image Viewer is one of the choices to open the image file with. I'll keep you posted.
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@dtarrant Why not make a screenshot of the app and icon if it's still installed? That should make it easier for others to recognise instead of just giving a description.
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@RandomUser Good idea, I thought of that. However I'm not certain that it's possible to copy and paste text or images into the forum. It didn't use to be possible. Anyhow, in the meantime I've tried searching my file system for imageviewer.mhall119 and found a number of hits. I assume these are the files associated with my Image Viewer app. Thanks for your help.
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@dtarrant hi, posting images on the Forum works now
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This is the code of that app @dtarrant is asking for https://code.launchpad.net/~mhall119/+junk/imageviewer
Just in case someone wants to give it a try.
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@advocatux Cool, I'll try it! Thanks for the tip.
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@advocatux Here's my attempt to post an image: file:///home/phablet/Pictures/Screenshots/screenshot20190511_161601671.png
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@dtarrant Unfortunately, this is only the address of the image file. How do I post the image itself?
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@advocatux said in Whatever happened to Image Viewer?:
This is the code of that app @dtarrant is asking for https://code.launchpad.net/~mhall119/+junk/imageviewer
Just in case someone wants to give it a try.
This looks like the man! I think we should ask Micheal Hall to add Image Viewer to OpenStore. In my experience it works fine under xenial. Perhaps the request would carry more weight if it came from @advocatux?
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@dtarrant OK, I just tested it on Morph and this is how it works: you need to tap on that icon on the right hand side (the one with an up arrow in black) and select the image you want to upload to the Forum
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@advocatux OK, I'll try that. Many thanks.
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Perhaps the request would carry more weight if it came from @advocatux?
@dtarrant I don't think so but I can try
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@advocatux said in Whatever happened to Image Viewer?:
@dtarrant OK, I just tested it on Morph and this is how it works: you need to tap on that icon on the right hand side (the one with an up arrow in black) and select the image you want to upload to the Forum
In Morph, I can't find an up arrow in black icon on the right hand side. I have an icon consisting of three short horizontal bars. When I click it, a drop down list appears including: share; bookmarks; history; downloads; etc.
I must have misunderstood your instructions. I tried pasting the screenshot image address into the Morph window expecting it to open the image, but I just got an error message saying access not permitted. I feel snookered!
