Re: dragging url to desktop is broken?

[Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>]

Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Nelson Benítez León:


>  I see two problems here, firstly being that GIO should be aware of my
> proxy settings to access internet, and secondly that DND'ing a url to
> the desktop shouldn't need  internet access at all, or should be
> optional. 

Good catch.

When you drop a file, the MIME type of the source file is determined in
fm_directory_view_handle_netscape_url_drop(). It uses
g_file_query_info(), which does sync. I/O. Maybe the destination file
type should already be determined during drag, rather than afterwards,
and using NautilusFile. This allows us to show a “link” icon instead of
a question mark when dragging a HTML link that points to a web page.

Do you want to work on the issue? :)

best regards,
 Christian Neumair

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Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>