I'm not a dev, but I definitely like the idea. It never occurred to me,
but smart drag and drop is really a very good way to bridge the gap
between shell commands and a GUI interface.

On 28/04/11 03:49 AM, Mihai Militaru wrote:
> Here's the patch:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3293445&group_id=180858&atid=894871
> 
> I briefly tested it, most of my operations are file dnd from PCManFM and text 
> from several other
> applications (Greany, Firefox). Dragging files from PCManFM and Thunar works 
> flawlessly, not so
> for Nautilus and Dolphin. Their selection, for some obscure reasons, comes as 
> plain text. I have
> no idea why this happens as of this moment, whether it's their problem or 
> mine, as I'm using the
> builtin functionality to detect the target type and get the data.
> 
> Nevertheless, this first patch is intended to keep things at minimum - I 
> intend to replace GTK's
> "magic" with a custom parser in the future - for several reasons:
> - the URL parser I've created for a cross-platform app of mine, although 
> supporting all the file
> managers I could put my hands on, including Explorer and Finder, is not that 
> elegant. It also
> would need some tweaks and additions - not everything one would need to drop 
> in the terminal
> needs to be a file path;
> - additional functionality is beyond my current needs, as I'm using 
> exclusively PCMandFM. ...or
> the needs of anyone I know, for that matter;
> - it's IMO better to leave the sofisticated parts for later, as someone may 
> come up with a neat
> solution - if it were not for those quotes, I'd have used only the gtk and 
> vte functions
> exclusively;
> - if DND in terminal is not wanted by the project devs - who haven't said a 
> thing so far - the
> matter is pointless altogether.
> 
> Mihai
> 


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