Re: Moved to Gnome 3 and can't drag and drop urls anymore

[Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux comcast net>]

Philip Walden wrote:
> I upgraded my Fedoral 14 (Gnome 2.4?) to 16 (Gnome 3.2?) the other day 
> and I am working through the UI changes.
>
> The one that stymies me the most is that I can no longer figure out 
> how to drag and drop a url from Firefox onto a custom launcher. I had 
> a custom launcher that wrapped get_flash_videos. I simply dragged a 
> link to a video page to the launcher on the *top panel* and viola it 
> launched a terminal with get_flash_videos downloading the video.
>
> I got the launcher to appear in the Activities/Applications list. I 
> just added the desktop file below to ~/.local/share/applications
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Terminal=true
> Icon=camera-video.png
> Type=Application
> Categories=Application;AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;
> Exec=getvid %u
> MimeType=text/x-uri;
> Name=GetVideo
> GenericName=GetVideo
> Comment=Invokes get_flash_videos.
> Comment[en]=Invokes get_flash_videos.
>
> However, I cannot figure out how to drag and drop an object (url) onto 
> it.
>
> If I click on something (a link in FireFox) and drag it up to the 
> Activities menu, I cannot access the Applications list without 
> releasing the mouse button and losing the object I am dragging.
I have a different Gnome 3.2 installation that is in fallback mode. If I 
place the above launcher on the top panel (which I cannot do with the 
full Gnome 3.2), the drag and drop works as before.

It looks like the use of custom launchers and drag-n-drop has fallen by 
the wayside with the full Gnome 3 experience.

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