From kde-devel  Sat Jan 30 22:01:56 1999
From: Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:01:56 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: A drag/drop wish
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>> Is this possible with XDND? I have not looked at the specs
>> for this protocol, but perhaps somebody has.
>
>It's more a wm concern. Isn't it, Mathias?
 
Nope, not at all. Even if it's written down in some linux books as well as in
manuals of some linux distributions and often repeated in the usenet: A
X11 windowmanager has nothing to do with drag and drop. Absolutely nothing.
DnD is purely among the applications. The right place to implement it is
therefore a common library, even better: the widget library.

Matthias 

>
>Comments?
> 
>Hans-Peter
>
>P.S.: Beg my pardon for not providing the relevant patch here...
>
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