RE: Feature request

[Garrett C <garrett compsci bristol ac uk>]

The point is that you can drag an icon directly from the application - a
word processor or whatever - straight to a filer window which is already
open.  The copy action as far as i know can only copy (not save) files
from one filer window (not just any application) to another.

It may be that the copy action is implemented in such a way (I do not
program GTK - I have no real knowledge of this) that such an action would
be possible.

Incidentally, the concept could be extended to allow dragging from a save
window into another applications window so the file could be
embedded/loaded.  for example, in an art package, select File->Save As,
and drag the icon into your wordprocessor, which would display the image
at the place in the document that the mouse button was released. 

Hope that clarifies things a bit

Chris.

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Arjan J. Molenaar wrote:

> Isn't the copy action, like we know from gmc, enough??? I've read the specs (that is the XDS specs), but I can't find out why copy wouldn't suffice.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arjan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Garrett C [mailto:garrett@cs.bris.ac.uk]
> > Sent: dinsdag 6 juni 2000 12:44
> > To: gtk-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: Feature request
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There is a project for Linux called ROX.  It aims to
> > provide a port of the RISCOS filer to Linux.  There is one feature of
> > particular interest, which is the XDS (X Drag-and-save) 
> > protocal.  This is
> > like drag-and-drop, but allows files to be dragged from their 
> > save dialog
> > to any supporting file managers to save the file.  This 
> > acheiced through
> > the addition of an icon to save dialogs.
> > 
> > This is useful because it means that mini browsing windows do 
> > not always
> > have to be used.  If the correct directory is open  in the 
> > filemanager 
> > (and this is very likely when working on anything), then the 
> > file can be
> > dragged directly to them.  The alternative would be to start 
> > at the home
> > directory in the mini-browser and relatively slowly mnavigate to the
> > desired directory.
> > 
> > I am not suggesting that the existing system be removed - 
> > simply that this
> > protocol be added to it, to provide a choice.
> > 
> > You can look at the details of the protocol at:
> > 
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/xds.php3
> > 
> > I hope you can add this feature to GTK - I for one would find it most
> > useful!
> > 
> > Chris.
> > 
> > 
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