Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Copy/paste into Nautilus

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 08:02 -0400, Ryan Hughes wrote:
> Hi.  So, we are able to select songs from the rhythmbox interface and drag 
> them into a nautilus window and it will copy the files there.
> 
> But I would like the ability to select songs from the rhythmbox interface 
> and click "copy" and then go to the nautilus interface and click "paste".
> 
> I've always thought this would be useful, because I like to keep rhythmbox 
> maximized, but I just recently used the "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" where the 
> windows are always maximized.  There's no way to drag from one window to 
> another because there's no way to make both windows visible.  In this 
> context, having copy/paste functionality is the only way to copy files 
> from Rhythmbox.  The only way I could copy those files was to view the 
> Properties and find the file paths of the individual files.
> 
> Should I open a bug about this?

Copy should probably populate the clipboard/XSelection with a list of
URIs for the files selected. Right now, all that is handled internally.

Feel free to file a bug