I'm (was) using Geeqie like a file manager; drag selected files from the file
list and drop them on folders in the tree view and wait for the menu to pop up
and choose move, copy or link. With F17 the menu never pops up. If I hold
down the ctrl key and do the move, it moves them, no questions asked. If I
hold down the shift key it copies them, no questions asked. (I may have those
backwards since I can never remember, which is exactly why I prefer the popup
menu).
I'm using KDE, which is what I used on FC13 and FC14. On my FC13 machine, I
had the full gnome desktop installed and used to use that until KDE4 got usable
again, but the FC14 machine never had the full gnome desktop installed, but had
many gnome apps installed (like gthumb).
On my new F17 install, I installed the regular desktop, which is gnome3.
Couldn't find my ass with both hands using the new gnome shell so I promptly
installed KDE. I installed the nvidia drivers as part of getting everthing
working and when I went back to try gnome (when you posted these questions),
gnome3 said my hardware wasn't good enough and opened in "fallback mode",
whatever that is. It seems to be even stupider mode, and VERY buggy. Any way,
Geeqie had the same behaviour in gnome3 fallback mode. On my other F17
machine, I installed the KDE spin, which skips the gnome desktop installation.
That was the same scenario with FC14; no gnome desktop, just some gnome apps.
I don't know if the problem with Geeqie not popping up the menu is related to
the nvidia driver. I tried for a while to get gnome3 to open in normal mode,
but no luck. Seems to be a bug filed by someone with the same problem, but no
response yet from the Fedora devs. I could try switching back to the nouveau
video driver, just to see if it helps with gnome3 in its normal mode, but I'd
rather not.
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:15:05 +0200
> From: mschwe...@gmail.com
> To: geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Geeqie-devel] Fedora 17 breaks drag-drop operations
>
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:04:52 -0700 (PDT), davewh wrote:
>
> >
> > I have come to depend on Geeqie for image organization and viewing. I empty
> > my camera's card by dragging images to appropriate directories, symbolic
> > links in the wallpapers directory for the really good ones. I've been
> > hapily organizing images on Fedora 13 and 14 for some time, but recently I
> > upgraded to Fedora 17 and no more drag-and-drop. If I hold down the Ctrl or
> > Shift, the operation works, but with no modifier, nothing happens; no menu
> > pops up, no move, copy or symlink. Anyone else seen this? Any known fix?
> > I can open a file manager (KDE's Konqueror or Dolphin) and drag to there and
> > the KDE menu pops up, but no joy when dropping in Geeqie's tree view. I
> > tried downloading the source and compiling myself, no change. I didn't do
> > anything special in the build, just the defaults. Is there something I
> > could do differently?
>
> Where exactly do you move the files? To a destination folder?
> If I move an image or a folder to a folder in Geeqie's folder list,
> the small pop-up dialog appears. If I hold down Ctrl or Shift, the
> pop-up dialog is skipped.
>
> That's with default GNOME Shell and its file manager (Nautilus).
>
> It's the same within a Openbox session and Nautilus.
>
> I don't know/remember whether it has worked differently ever before.
>
> --
> Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64
> loadavg: 0.75 0.73 0.67
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