Re: D'n'D suggestion

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi hackers,
> 
> I've got a suggestion that would be cool. If GNOME already has something
> like this, please LART me :)
> 
> Why not make panel launcher buttons accept drops? e.g. if I drop a file
> onto my gimp launcher button, gimp is run with the file as the
> argument. Maybe it could even be a launcher property on the properties
> page, e.g. a checkbox "accepts drops"

There is a branch in CVS which does this.  But it requires modifications
to the .desktop files, and so it is waiting for gnome "2" or later, I
believe.

Jacob
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