On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:17 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Samstag, den 25.03.2006, 09:54 -0800 schrieb Jeffrey W. Baker: > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:20 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > I think you could ask the volume monitor for all its volumes and check > > > for each of them, whether the dropped URI matches. > > > > I don't understand. The dropped URI is not one that Gnome VFS > > understands, so I can't use it to compare volumes. > > Yes, but if we pass the activation URI of the dropped volume to the > application offering the drop target, it should be able to deal with it.
I agree, this would be the best action. > > > Just for curiosity: What exactly are you trying to implement > > > > A music metadata program. The user should be allowed to drop a volume > > off the desktop onto my program. You might have noticed that this > > doesn't currently work in Rhythmbox, either. > > Are you interested in the volume's properties (i.e. its ID), or are you > only interested in the volume's activation URI? Given the activation URI, I should be able to get the other properties from GnomeVFSVolume. For network volumes I would need just the URI. For local volumes I will also want information from HAL. Regards, Jeffrey -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
