[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 14921] New: drag&drop to bookmarks: silently prevent to add new bookmark if it's a file

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14921

            Bug ID: 14921
           Summary: drag&drop to bookmarks: silently prevent to add new
                    bookmark if it's a file
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Thunar
           Version: 1.8.2
          Hardware: PC (x86_64)
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: cellstorm at brainity.com
                CC: benny at xfce.org, hjudt at xfce.org
  Target Milestone: 1.8.3

Dear XFCE developers,

In Thunar 1.8.2 (Debian sid package), when dragging a file to one of the
bookmarks in sidebar, at dropping, when not aiming properly, there it is
possible that the file gets "added to bookmarks" which results in an error
message popup, disturbing the Workflow: "Failed to add new shortcut       The
path "foo" does not refer to a directory" 
Very annoying if you want to drag &drop lots of files into bookmarks. So best
would be if this would not be not possible at all, and even the option that a
bookmark can be placed should be disabled when it's a file which is currently
dragged.

Question is: Can the data of the dragged object already be accessed while
dragging and without dropping, and when entering the sidebar the right actions
are activated/deactivated? 
In comparison, Nemo does also let the file drop as it would create a new
bookmark, but then the whole action gets "rejected", and the file's icon flows
back to its origin over the screen.

Another special case is when dragging and dropping multiple files and folders.
The current behavior is that files get rejected as above, and folders are added
to the bookmarks list, which is not the right behavior either, from my
perspective. I would suggest to prevent adding to bookmarks if it is mixed
content, and if it's only folders, It would be best to ask the user if he
really intends to create multiple bookmarks or just wants to drag folders onto
one bookmark.

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