Drag and drop on launchers

[Andreas Wallberg <andreas wallberg gmail com>]

Hi all!

I keep a few custom launchers around to open various kinds of clear
text data files produced by scientific applications, perhaps with some
extra scripted pre-processing. The data files do not have any
particular file ending or anything else that allows the system to
figure out that I want to open them in a particular program so I do
not associate the text file the launcher, but just drag and drop it.

This works ok in Gnome 2, but I just realised it is currently not
possible (or is it?) in Gnome Shell to drag and drop a file, either
from the workspace onto a launcher in "Activities" or from "Recent
items" onto the application launcher. It is however possible to drag a
recent item and drop it on an already opened window to open the file.
Is more extensive drag-and-drop planned to be implemented in GS?

/Andreas

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