Re: Gnome FAQ:Cut & Paste

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> Anyway, what work has been done?  

Little, as the baboon stuff is not done yet.

> Where in GNOME will this functionality
> lie?  

Baboon

> Will it be similar in spirit to Xdnd's method for tagging objects
> which are Dnd'd around the desktop, i.e., MIME typing, etc.? 

It is orders of magnitude more powerful.  

You do not transfer data, but you actually transfer an object
reference that implements a DataSource interface (IData in OLE2
terms). 

>  What sort
> of timeframe is there?  

No timeframe.

>Who is working on it?  

Elliot Lee, me.

> What needs to be done?

Lots.

Miguel.