Dragging another image into a `gr.Image` doesn't work.

[hollance]

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If the image well from a gr.inputs.Image is empty, then dragging an image into it works as expected.

However, dragging another image into it afterwards will load that image into the browser window itself, not into the image well, thereby exiting the gradio app or opening the image into a new tab (depending on the browser).

Describe the solution you'd like

The user needs to press the Clear button to remove the old image before the image well accepts a new image being dragged into it. That is unintuitive. It would be better if new drags were always accepted.

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[omerXfaruq]

I kinda agree, but not very sure, dropping an image onto another image does not seem intuitive to me either, would you like to take a look on this issue @pngwn?

[abidlabs]

Imo this is not too critical -- if there is already an image that's uploaded, I think it's reasonable to have the users to clear the image before uploading again. Do you feel like it's unclear @hollance or more that it's inconvenient?

[hollance]

I feel that if I could drag an image into that control once, I should be able to do it twice.

I'm used to using an operating system that lets you drag stuff everywhere (macOS), so having to click a Clear button to allow a new drag is totally unintuitive for me and I keep doing it wrong, even though I know I "should" press Clear first.

So from a UI perspective, I think the way it currently works is confusing and incomplete. For people who don't drag their images into things, it's probably fine. For drag-and-droppers like me, it feels like a "web UI" in the bad sense of the word. (By that I mean, if a native Mac app worked this way, it wouldn't get very good reviews.)

[hysts]

As a gradio user, I agree with @hollance. Recently, I've been using gradio to make CV related apps and trying out demo apps on Hugging Face Spaces, but I often forget to press the clear button before dropping another image. I find it tedious to have to press the button every time. I think there are many people who feel the same way.

[abidlabs]

Great feedback, thank you @hollance and @hysts! We'll look into it then

[pngwn]

@hollance @hysts Do you think should be true for all image variants? Should as when sketching or masking over an image, not just when there is only a simple image input?

[hollance]

I feel if there is an option for uploading an image, drag-and-drop should work too. But if there is no option to upload anything, only drawing, then it seems unnecessary to add drag-and-drop.

[hysts]

Agreed.

[TinyForge]

This is no longer working in 4.36.0