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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Drag an drop bug
From:       Wilco Greven <j.w.greven () student ! utwente ! nl>
Date:       2002-03-06 20:39:17
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On Wednesday 06 March 2002 18:51, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:39 am, Chris January wrote:
> > Well at least the path is valid. But I expect the file to be copied to my
> > home directory when I drag it from the FTP folder to the home directory
> > icon. However when I dragged it over, say, Kate I would expect the file
> > to open in Kate. I'm not sure this is possible with the current drag and
> > drop mechanism. (The latter works, but the former doesn't).
>
> What happens at the moment is that when you drag to a kicker button, the
> application associated with that button is started with the dragged file(s)
> as argument(s).
>
> The Home button doesn't really understand that you want to "copy" the
> files, instead of "opening" the files.
>
> I think we should fix that for KDE 3.1 (maybe 3.0.1?). A solution could be
> to have an additonal "X-KDE-DropExec=" line that gets executed when a URL
> is dropped on the application. Or maybe something that will work with other
> kinds of drops as well (e.g. text, images) No idea how that should work
> then though.

This would make things more complicated then necessary IMO. It's easy enough 
to create some links to folders on the panel and drop your files there. An 
easier solution would be to make the Home Directory button a link instead of 
an application.

Greetings,
Wilco



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