Re: [gtk-list] Drag and Drop and my patch

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 Stefan_Wille@public.uni-hamburg.de wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> I've seen that the drag and drop test in testgtk
> uses cursor bitmaps to indicate a drag action.
> 
> I would like to suggest to use shaped (transparent) pixmaps
> instead. You can try this out with 'shapes' in testgtk from
> the patch I just posted.

Cursor bitmaps are the way to go... We don't want to bloat Gtk with a
thousand features, and X does built-in dragging of this way very easily
and without overhead. Having to redraw a pixmap on the screen every time
the mouse moves doesn't sound very efficient to me.

> I would suggest to build a GtkDragIcon widget that is more fine tuned
> than the code in my testgtk-patch. I could take part on such a widget.

OTOH, if you have a patch ready, I for one will definitely look at it :) 

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