Re: [gnome-panel] Dropping files on panel launcher doesn't work as expected

[Daniel Poersch <danielpoe gmx de>]

Hi Britt,

thanks for the answer, this topic has already been clarified. At the 
moment you need proper .desktop files, where the Exec line looks like this:
Exec=<application> %F   # or %f, %u, %U --> see .desktop-spec

Unfortunately in my distro hardly any .desktop file has this entry.
AND nautilus' desktop has a different behaviour (it behaves like I 
expected). Also see the bug I filed: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151598

Thanks anyway, for your will to help!!!

Daniel


Britt Selvitelle wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 06:38 +0000, Daniel Poersch wrote:
>
> > I recently noticed that gnome-panel does not behave as I expected it,
> > when dropping files from nautilus on an application launcher. 
> > At the moment (got Gnome 2.6.2) the application starts, but without 
> > recognising the dropped files. What I would expect is:
> > exec <program> "$@"
>
>
> It works fine here in Gnome 2.6.2. I am dragging a text file from the
> desktop (or from nautilus) to Epiphany on my panel, and it loads w/ the
> text file open in the browser.
>
> What OS / gnome distro are you using?