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

[Ryan Hughes <ryan iheartryan com>]

> Can't you just hit alt-tab while holding your mouse button on the drag
> and drop it on your preferred window?

You can.  I was just having a hard time getting the proper window to open, 
in netbook remix.  Even if I'm not using netbook remix, it's sometimes 
kind of a pain in the butt to get the right window to pop up.

> Alternatively, you can click and
> drag the mouse and hold it over the netbook remix entry on the taskbar
> till that window is on top and then drop the songs.

The window wasn't popping up when I was doing it.  This was using the 
Ubuntu 10.10's "Unity" desktop.

--Ryan


> Just a thought, I do this with album covers from chrome to rhythmbox.
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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