Re: [Nautilus-list] DnD questions

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 12:16  PM, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> While I'm trying to clean up Nautilus' drag and drop code, there are two
> more bugs that need fixing.  To be more specific:
>
> 1) Dragging a .desktop file from the panel to the desktop results in a
>    .link file being generated.  It should create a .desktop file.
>
> 2) It doesn't like dragging a .desktop file from the panel to a window
>    at all.
>
> I'd like to fix these, but am getting a little overwhelmed of where
> nautilus actually handles drag and drop.  Can anyone give me a brief
> road map of where I'd look to fix this?

The sad part is that Nautilus drag and drop is spread around in many 
places and a bit of a mess. The worst part of it is that there is code 
that should be in libnautilus-private that is currently in eel, and code 
that should be in the Nautilus file manager source section that is 
currently in libnautilus-private, which totally sucks. Luckily, I can 
point you to the right place for what you want to do.

A good place to start for the icon view is 
nautilus_icon_container_receive_dropped_icons in libnautilus-
private/nautilus-icon-dnd.c The corresponding code for the list view is in 
src/file-manager/fm-list-view.c, fm_list_handle_dropped_items.

The fact that nautilus-icon-dnd.c has the icon-view code in it is an 
architecture mistake.

Let me know if you have more questions about where to look.

    -- Darin