Add button to view image in default browser.

[ScottYates]

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Feature Request Description

Images on desktop app are constrained to the size of the signal window. This makes them hard to view. It seems like a good idea to present a button that would allow you to open the image in the default browser so you could use it to zoom/pan around the image.

this should also solve this issue:
#1042

[etanot]

@scottnonnenberg-signal Can we provide those basic functionality inside the desktop app rather than depending on external app?

[ScottYates]

I am not sure. One of the main problems is the image being limited to the size of the desktop app window. Since it is a chat app, I (and i suspect others) relegate it to a small window.

Can that particular problem can be solved by opening a new possibly full screen window outside of the Signal desktop app in which to view it? I am ignorant of the limitations involved.

[metronidazole]

@finn0

Why? Almost every OS (with a GUI) supports the concept of a default image viewer.

This should be high priority as the lack of a feature makes it a PITA to view desktop images. I first have to save an image, then browse to actually see what is in an image.

What should be a one click process, takes a dozen clicks and takes 5x as long to do.

[ScottYates]

What @metronidazole says is true. The concept of a "default image viewer" is there in every modern desktop OS I know of. And his pain point is one I share (and I suspect we are not in the minority).

[etanot]

@metronidazole @beernutz

Why? Almost every OS (with a GUI) supports the concept of a default image viewer.

But I think It'd be nice to have zooming feature inside the app (if possible) just like Signal app in mobile devices because most of time we just want to see/read the content inside the image file. And for more advance features we can open it in our favorite image viewer application. Signal stores images in encrypted form then why would we save it inside the OS just to view zoomed image?

[ministroni]

If the desktop app already saves the image out somewhere on the file system, it makes sense it could just open that file. I kind of doubt that though. It should be (and probably is) encrypted within the app until you save it. I'd much rather just have clicking open a "fullscreen" view of the images that's still contained within Signal itself. I'd much prefer that to having it publicly viewable like hangouts just to send it to my browser, or automatically saving it unencrypted just so my default image viewer could open it.

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