Re: [gtk-list] Re: Drag and Drop, try 1

[Otto Hammersmith <otto redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 12:43:13PM -0400, Otto Hammersmith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 11:41:21AM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Martynas Kunigelis wrote:
> > 
> > > Note that most probably KDE will use a different protocol in a near 
> > > future, since Troll Tech promised to add Drand And Drop to Qt 1.3, 
> > > which is promised to be released "in summer". Hope the Trolls will
> > > choose a good protocol, they always do the right thing programmingwise.
> > > If only Qt was LGPL!
> > >
> > > It would be nice, however, if gtk would support DND to/from KDE, since
> > 
> > That would be nice.
> > 
> > Here's what I would like to do:
> > 	Get talking with Troll Tech, the OffiX people (who seem to be
> > 	rather lax in maintaining things), and you KDE people, along with
> > 	the people on this list, and figure out what would be the ultimate
> > 	drag and drop protocol. I can't find docs on Motif protocol, but I
> > 	suspect it would be a very good place to start.
> > 
> > Then once we have agreed on a protocol, things will work much better.
> 
> I think this is a very Good Idea.  Can you draft a message to send to
> the various appropriate mailing lists.  (I have a feeling a post to
> usenet would generate an awful lot of krfut... enough to justify a
> cross-mailing list post.) I suppose a post to comp.os.linux.apps might
> not be soooo bad....

Okay, ignore that brain-fart.  I didn't see the cc: line.. and still
don't.. I guess the mailing list stripped it out or something dumb
like that. *sigh*

-- 
					-Otto.