[Thunar-dev] two features request

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
>>>and ...
>>>when you drag & drop from thunar to a terminal it pastes the name but also
>>>it put/run an "enter". I would like to have only the pasted text and no the
>>>enter command.
>>
>>text/uri-list requires a \r\n after each URI. The terminals could
>>however strip the \r\n before pasting if its only a single URI, tho that
>>would be rather inconsistent.
> 
> Going off topic here since the paste behavior of the terminal has 
> nothing to do with thunar, but....
> Why would it be inconsistent for a program to parse the text/uri-list 
> before pasting !? I think in all cases a terminal should replace the 
> \r\n sequences with spaces before pasting, this is the only sensible 
> thing to do for a terminal to paste text/uri-list. On the other hand, 
> when the terminal does _not_ use text/uri-list and the copy-paste target 
> defaults to text/plain (I assume that thunar can copy/past text/plain 
> targets ?) than it should paste the text "as is" -- after all we might 
> try to paste to an editor in the terminal.

Inconsistent in that for text/uri-list with only one URI the \r\n's
would be removed, while with multiple URIs the \r\n's would remain.

> To get back on topic: _if_ thunar can copy paste as plain/text and _if_ 
> that is what happens with this particular terminal -- it would be 
> thunars responsebility to give some text to the terminal. No need there 
> to append a \n to a single uri.

Nope, Thunar does not (and will not) support text/plain for Copy&Paste
and Drag&Drop.

> -- Jaap <pardus at cpan.org>

Benedikt