Re: [gtk-list] Common DND types?

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Evan Lawrence wrote:

> Hi, I'm thinking about adding drag and drop support to a program I'm
> working on, and was wondering if there are any common MIME-style types
> for gtk programs, so that my app could communicate effectively with yet
> unwritten programs...  For example, if someone writes a desktop app,
> shouldn't there be a common set of acceptable drag types and drop types
> so that they could drag an object of type "file/text" (just an example)
> from the desktop to say, a filemanager or text editor, and the
> filemanager or text editor would recognise that as an acceptable drop
> type? Would you just use the standard MIME types and, if so (hate to ask
> a stupid question,) where can I get a list of them? Hope I made that
> clear, started confusing myself when I wrote it :-) ... Thanks! 

Yes, standard MIME types, /etc/mime.types (on RHL 5.0 at least) lists the
most common ones. 

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