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

[Ryan Hughes <ryan iheartryan com>]

BTW, this is the bug I created:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632827

--Ryan

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Ryan Hughes wrote:

> 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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