Integration with MacOS share menu.

[envygeeks]

It would be nice if there was simple integration with MacOS share menu so we can ship images and stuff directly from the desktop without having to go into the Menu. This also serves another purpose, for example with the share menu integration, I can also ask 1Password to ship an encrypted password file to somebody who needs a password to something without having to type it in to them.

[larssb]

Is the coming or is this a wont-fix issue?

[Duckbilled]

Would really love to see this, just like iOS. I find my self using the share option more and more. I even press the share button shortcut when I want to share with Signal and then realise (again) that it doesn’t offer a share button.

[luispuerto]

I'd really love to see this feature soon. I know that it isn't most probably incredible important feature, but as others have pointed out, I find myself using a lot the share feature on macOS a lot these days.

[hartherbert]

I miss this feature almost every day.. would be great to see this working 🎉

[EvanHahn-Signal]

One thing that could help us: is this possible with an Electron-based app? I wasn't able to find anything after doing a few minutes of research, but I'm sure I've missed something. Ideally, there'd be an API we could hook into to do this.

[Duckbilled]

@EvanHahn-Signal I am not really a programmer so didn’t know this might have been an issue. Reading through this issue I am less hopeful.

[EvanHahn-Signal]

That's unfortunate. It seems like we won't be able to implement this until Electron (presumably via Chromium) supports it. Please feel free to update this issue if there are any developments there.

[luispuerto]

@EvanHahn-Signal why not? Electron seems that have implemented this here: electron/electron#25629

On the last message of the previously linked issue is the key… there is also a link to the macOS api for this feature.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/extensions/share-extensions/

[luispuerto]

So, just to be sure, is this going to be implemented (at some point) or not?

[cacamaca]

Signal Guys - I echo everyone above. This is a must. Kindly consider the share menu integration for macOS. For those of you who use macOS, I'm sure you will agree. Thanks in advance.

[hiqua]

I feel it's the kind of stuff for which a PR could be welcome, so if someone is interested, it could be worth it to give it a try.

[cacamaca]

How does this look to have Telegram showing up but not Signal? I hope the image speaks for itself and will incite Signal to add the share menu option.

[tylergannon]

Hey all let's heed @hiqua here, and stop +1'ing this issue. Free and Open Source Software needs a community of contributors. Cool that Telegram has this feature. Maybe someone from their community had the time to make a contribution... hint, hint.

If someone wants to work on this with me, shoot me a DM. I don't have the bandwidth to look into it myself at the moment but I'll happily work with someone if you want to put heads together.

Meanwhile, please don't assume that just bc a feature is needed, means that the core team have the time and energy to implement it.

[luispuerto]

@tylergannon totally agree about contributing, but some of us don't know the programming language this app is written… so for us it's really difficult.

By the way, contributing is not only writing code, but also other things like writing documentation, testing, or even asking for features that could be important that the developers haven't think they are.

Also, I don't think that is nothing wrong to 👍🏻 a issue to show people is interested on it.

Not everyone is a developer… or have the bandwitch to become one.

PS/ If I knew TypeScrip or JavaScript I would be more than happy to create a pull request, but I don't.