Re: Draging from window icons

["David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)" <captain isdn net il>]

Clover Andrew wrote:
> 
> Ben FrantzDale <frantb@rpi.edu> wrote:
> 
> > How many times have you been working on a file and wanted to
> > send it to someone on ICQ or attach it to an email and been
> > forced to look through your directory structure to find it?
> > With this you can just drag the icon to your email to attach it.
> 
> Or to the file manager to save it, perhaps.
> 
> This would be a lovely feature that could finally do away with
> the need for those pesky Open.../Save as... dialogues that are
> gradually growing into full-featured file managers in their
> own right. (With hilarious consequences.)
> 

Actually, the author of ROX, writed a proposal and an example
implementation of a protocol for saving documents using drag'n'drop, for
GTK+ apps.

I tried it and it works very good.

The main problem I see here is what will users without mice do?

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