Re: Drag n drop.

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Nat Friedman <nat@helixcode.com> writes:

> Hey Maciej,
> 
>     I have dim memories of you saying that we needed the local bypass
> hack to avoid dnd problems in Bonobo.  What were those problems
> exactly?  I would like to make dnd work across process boundaries.

Nat,

The problem was that GtkPlug and GtkSocket do not handle drag and drop
properly if they are in the same application (or more specifically,
using the same instance of gtk+). The separate process case should
already be handled correctly for drag and drop, and in fact, we
temporarily split the nautilus directory views into a separate process
as a workaround, and it actually worked.

If dnd is not working for you across process boundaries, can you tell
me what you're tryng to do and what problem you are seeing
specifically?

 - Maciej