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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#23713: drag and drop is too limited
From:       Georgios Petasis <petasis () iit ! demokritos ! gr>
Date:       2001-04-06 11:42:24
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On ??? 06 ??? 2001 14:26, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Mit, 04 Apr 2001, 101355.471@compuserve.com wrote:
> > It appears that drag and drop is entirely limited to KDE apps.. I noticed
> > this first when trying to drag an HTML page onto Netscape which didn't
> > work, nor did Mozilla. This has been working for a very long time with
> > Gnome, so why not KDE  :-)
>
> We use the standard dnd protocol under X11, its called XDND. If
> GNOME fails to follow standards, its fortunately not "our" problem.
>
> Try the Qt drag'n'drop example. it'll show you the mimetype and the charset
> that is dnd'ed. it might be that they just send an incorrect or nonstandard
> mimetype. in such a case we could add a workaround.
>
> if they continue to use motif dnd, well, its their problem.
>

I have also noted strange d'n'd behaviour with GNOME apps, when
I was implementing the XDND extension for Tcl/Tk.
Tk was fully operable with KDE, Qt, Motif but only worked partially
with GNOME...

George
 
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