sending multiple attachments as album

[henning-schild]

Sending files like pictures has to be done individually and can not be badged by selecting several files in the file selection that comes up.

It would be nice if one could select multiple files of the same type after selecting the type.

One use-case would be to send many pictures at once, instead of having to that file on a per-file basis. The way it works now is basically already pretty painful starting from 3+ files

[jgibbon]

I plan to visit this after #554 has been tested by the community and merged. (You can help test by trying the attached/zipped rpms and commenting your feedback on that PR if you like!)

Implementing sending albums would not be much fun if we couldn't display them.

cheers

[henning-schild]

Not sure whether an "album" is a special thing in the telegram protocol. If we would talk about just any type of file ... it would probably boil down to looping over the files and sending them as individual messages. file type should not matter too much, and "album" support is not needed.

[jgibbon]

It is a special type of bundling up to 10 messages with images and/or videos (it can be of other types, but with some restrictions): https://core.telegram.org/tdlib/docs/classtd_1_1td__api_1_1send_message_album.html