Re: Help PLEASE!

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

First of all, gtk does not use an external drag and drop library.  The DnD
code is included.

As for toy-lettes, there is the g-print one, which allows you to drag
files to a printer icon on the desktop to print them.  I was saying that
it may be possible to write a simple one that starts the appropriate
program.

Of course, isn't it easier to double click on a file rather than drag it
to an app icon?  You can also set a command used to edit the file, which
can be chosen from the context menu.  You can configure this behaviour
from the mime properties capplet.

James.

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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Paul Seymour wrote:

> RE: drag and drop problem.
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> and in reply to Bidemi and James,
> Firstly thankyou for your help. It was a great help.
> 
> James wrote:
> >Your problem is mainly with gmc (the file manager that controls the
> >desktop icons).  I don't know if GMC currently supports making an icon
> >into a drag destination.
> 
> This I think is the main point. Unless anyone can let us know
> otherwise???
> I think  that it's probably just not yet supported to have an icon  (I
> had a
> shortcut icon on the desktop to the gnome editor) that you can drag and
> drop a file to and have it launch with the file in it. ie have the
> shortcut as
> the drag destination. I 'm thinking this is probably not currently
> supported
> like James has suggested. But when I do this action I get no error
> messages,
> a small flurry of disk activity and gmc seems to flash and dance a bit
> as if
> it's about to do something, but then nothing.
> 
> 
> >This is probably possible with a toy-lette
> >(great name, by the way), but I don't know how easy it would be to
> >configure this.
> 
> James, what is this? Can you tell me where to get this. I'll try it.
> (unless of course this is a joke, with a name like this!?:)
> 
> >A number of the applications allow you to drag files to the actual
> >application window to load a file.  You could try this as well.
> 
> Yes this works. And always did. I guess this is great enough for now.
> thanks!
> But other window managers let you drop straight onto the icon shortcut.
> Rather than run the shortcut to a window first. I would guess that it
> wouldn't
> be too complicted to remove this extra step? Why need it. Just drop
> straight
> on the shortcut. I would like to make a suggestion that this
> functionality be
> made available in the future. Unless there is some reason that it is
> really
> complicated to do so. Make sense yes? Even windozzze does it. Thats part
> 
> of the beauty of having the shortcuts in the desktop. The concept is our
> 
> gift from the Mac os.
> 
> 
> Thankyou also Bidemi: In reply:
> Mine is a FreeBSD box. I have compiled the whole of gnome from the
> bsd ports skeleton. There were a few hiccups that I did Kludge my way
> through, (yes I confess!!!:) but they were only in applets I'm not
> using.
> 
> To be sure I reinstalled the dnd, drag and drop library. I then
> recompiled
> the filemanager gmc. But no difference. I wonder perhaps I need to
> recompile
> the panel also. ??? I 'm not sure. But it was still the same. Didn't
> work to drop
> on shortcut. However the fact that drag and drop does and has always
> worked
> to drop on an open application suggests I guess that the drag and drop
> is working
> it's just that drop to shortcut is not yet implemented. I can't imagine
> that it would
> be more than a step away but I'm not the developer so I don't know.
> Perhaps
> there is a good reason. Or perhaps now with the dnd library new install
> I need to
> reinstall the whole of gnome, so that bin's can relink? Also I went to
> "www.
> gnome.org for the list of libraries and utilities that you need to have
> installed in order"
> but I couldn't find where this list of order of compilation was. And I
> want it!
> If anyone can give me a complete URL i'd  be grateful.
> 
> Anyway I think relinking everything is probably not needed as before,
> although
> dnd didn't register as one of my installed packages explicitly I think
> that the bsd
> port installed it as a matter of course because I saw the dates for the
> dnd port
> directory had been touched at install time. The files from hear have
> been cleaned
> out since though. Besides if it drag and drops to the open app then dnd
> must be
> actually installed and working huh.
> 
> Hence after all of this !!!!!!!!!, I think that gnome just doesn't quite
> do this yet.
> 
> But I still want to stick with it. I think it's very cool.
> 
> Any further comments/info from anybody on this topic very welcome.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks again!:)
> Paul.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Paul.
> Bureau Of  Meteorology Australia.
> 
> 
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