Re: dragging url to desktop is broken?

["Nelson Benítez León" <nbenitezl gmail com>]

2008/8/10 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.

I've been looking at fm_directory_view_handle_netscape_url_drop function, I think we just have to do a fast,blind link to whatever url the user is dropping in the Desktop, not attending at its mimetype (have to access internet to fetch it) nor its extension (there are too many extensions to take care e.g. php,asp,) and there are also pages with no extension (like digg.com)..

We could make that if SHIFT is pressed when dropping then we ask the user if it wants to download it instead.

What do you think?