[Application Suggestion] GIF Picker

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  • We have the clipboard widget for pasting regular text snippets
  • We have an emoji picker to select some emojis and send them to the clipboard :face_with_tongue:

What we need now is a GIF picker!

This would be a popup like the emoji picker. It would source GIFs from any local folder(s) the user set up and also online services like GIPHY (API available @ Docs | GIPHY Developers). If the user downloads GIFs from GIPHY it could save them in a local cache for easy reuse without having to fetch them again.

The initial window would just be a button to Add Source(s). Users can then add a local folder and if they want online support, it can direct them to Docs | GIPHY Developers to help them get an account and place the API key in the Settings.

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@Confusion_Dreaded start a new thread rather than hijacking this one. You’ll get more interested people to read it anyway if it has a relevant title.

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sounds like a fun little project for someone to learn the basics

it should be modeled more after the emoji picker than the clipboard widget tho, since both this popup and the emoji popup send their output to the clipboard anyway.

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Yes please, GNOME has had this for a very long time in the form of an extension.

Would love to see this implemented into KDE. How likely is it to happen though?

The GNOME extension is titled ‘All-in-One-Clipboard’ and it works perfect.

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If all you’re after is an all in one keyboard, KDE Plasma already has that, it handles files, images and text.

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Would it make sense to have a Gif tab added to the emoji picker? Like discord and a lot of other messengers do it?

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Logically yes, but if that is acceptable to the Plasma team as it would involve more code added.

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Having tabs for Gifs with support for both Klipy and user favorites and memes, also being able to have favorites you can add through either URL or the file browser from your storage, would be godsend. As far as I’ve researched both on Windows and Linux, literally no such unique “meme/reaction manager” exists.

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IIRC there have been discussions about the state of plasma-keyboard and possibly merging the emoji picker with it to make a full IME core product, so maybe there’s something to do there.

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it's all about the memes

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Whether in Plasma Keyboard, the Emoji Picker or some new tool I’m not fussed.