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Subject:    Fwd: konqueror drag and drop problem in detailed list view with
From:       Datschge <datschge () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-01-09 20:09:12
Message-ID: 200501092109.02491.datschge () gmx ! de
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Date: Sunday 09 January 2005 02:57
From: temp1_snover@iprimus.com.au
To: kfm-devel@kde.org

Hi all,

i apologise if this message seems directed to the wrong mailing list,
but i thought i would start here. Almost noone else in the world
 seems to have this problem, so i dont think i will get much help
 elsewhere. i am also a software engineer myself, so, if people can
 give me some advice on where to start I can have a go at
 finding/fixing the problem myself.

Anyway. I am being driven mad by a problem with konqueror and
enlightenment. When using detailed list view, drag and drop soon
fails on every virtual desktop except the first. Icon view continues
 to work fine on every desktop ...

What happens when i drag a file from the file list over to the folder
 list, is that instead of the folder highlighting in orange, i get
 the round circle with diagonal line through it, indicating my file
 cannot be dropped. It is absolutely infuriating, and renders
 konqueror useless on every desktop except the first.

Occasionally, i have also seen another problem, whereby the
 (attempted) destination folder in Konq. fails to highlight as i
 mouseover with the file im dragging. Then, when i drop, up pops a
 gnome create launcher window with the file path/name if the file i
 am dragging entered in. That problem doesnt happen often, but once
 it starts, it continues until i kill the gnome-panel. Konqueror will
 then go back to the round circle, telling me i just cant drop my
 file anywhere.

The problem is unpleasantly hard to nail down. If i log in with a
 brand new e config, up the number of virtual desktops to something
 like my usual 2x9, everything will be fine for a while. Konqueror
 will work perfectly on every desktop.

I can copy the e config aside for future reference, use e for a
 while, and then suddenly drag and drop will fail for every konqueror
 that is started on any desktop besides the first. Nothing seems to
 bring it back once it fails, short of logging out, removing e
 config, and starting again. The frustration starts when i diff a
 working e config with one that fails. There are absolutely no
 differences that would make e behave differently. Whats more, i have
 backed up working e configs, and, once my e config fails, restoring
 a previously good backup of the e config fails too. The only way to
 get it working is to start with a clean e config. Its quite
 inexplicable at this stage

i never had this problem with kde 3.1, it started with kde3.2 and
 continues with kde3.3.1

The problem never happens when i do a full KDE login. So i assumed
the problem was caused by one of the kdeinit processes which
 konqueror might rely on not being started when i use enlightenment.
 I have therefore tried manually starting every kdeinit process i
 normally see in a full kde session: knotify, kde_uiserver, klauncher
 etc etc. But none of these processes help at all. I've also tried
 manually running startkde to do all of that for me, and it didnt
 help.

It looks to me like konqueror is failing to receive some sort of IPC
 telling it where my file is being dragged. And possibly not
 receiving the drop events either - allowing gnome-panel to receive
 them sometimes, somehow.

i found this post below which describes a similar problem ages ago in
KDE 2. This fellow did not receive any feedback.

From: Ashley Collins
Subject: KDE 2 with Enlightenment.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.kde
Date: 2001-08-16 17:45:21 PST
I'm using KDE 2.2 in Debian unstable with Enlightenment 0.16.5
I've noticed a couple of things:
- Konqueror doesn't swallow KJAS applets
- Drag & Drop is still broken on the second screen of a xinerama
 multihead set up.
Both these are fixed by running kwn and the KDE environment. However,
 I much prefer to use E.
Has anyone had any success with using E and KDE2 together?
Thanks in advance.
Ashley

Any ideas or help tracking this problem down will be appreciated.

John
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