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

[Stefan_Wille public uni-hamburg de]

On 28 Oct, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that cursor bitmaps are very limited, both in colors, and
>> (I believe) in size. I've just been playing with KDE, and kfm uses a
>> shaped window for dragging, instead of a cursor, and the effect seems
>> worthwhile.
> 
> OK, that is one approach we could take, which might work OK... 

This IS the approach I suggest.. it's the exactly the same as in KDE.

> 
>> We shouldn't bloat Gtk, but if Gtk is to be generally useful, it also
>> needs to adequitely support commonly needed features. 
> 
> Right, so the question is, how much more code will we need to add? 

not much.