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

[Ryan Hughes <ryan iheartryan com>]

Hi.  I submitted a patch on the bugtracker, where I implemented the 
following things:
	* Paste into nautilus will copy the files.
	* Paste into a text context will paste a list of file pathnames.
	* We also populate the X PRIMARY clipboard with the list of
	  pathnames.  (I thought pathnames would be a little more natural
	  than uris.  However, if the RhythmDBEntry doesn't have a normal
	  file path, it'll paste the uri anyway).
	* Paste into a uri-list context will paste a list of uris.

Tell me what you think.

--Ryan

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Bastien Nocera 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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