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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#31344: asking for name of file if drag and drop
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-27 13:28:45
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:02:33PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2001 22:21, william_ledu@netcourrier.com wrote:
> > Package: konqueror
> > Version: 2.2 (using KDE 2.2.0 )
> > Severity: normal
> > Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
> > Compiler:          Not Specified
> > OS:                Linux
> > OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified
> > 
> > when you drag and drop a picture (alone not include in html) view with the \
> > browser ex: http://www.foo.org/pics/pic1.jpg and you drag&drop it to a local \
> > folder, a name is ask why don't use the original name ?
> 
> Hmm, there's a technical reason here: because it's an "image drag", not a file \
> drag. 
> To the other developers:
> This is a khtml_part bug then: it should offer both the image and the URL, in
> the drag object - i.e. it shouldn't use QImageDrag directly.
> 
> Hmm, this brings me back to the idea of a generic drag object that can combine
> multiple forms of the same data. Currently we need to write a new class for
> this every time. For instance we might do something like, create a KURLDrag
> and a QImageDrag, and bundle them together in a KMultipleDrag (to be written),
> that combines the two. (It would be able to combine more than that, of course).
> How does that sound ?

Excellent idea!


Simon


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