xfdesktop menu drag and drop?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Eduard Roccatello wrote:
> > 
> >>On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 03:21:05 -0400 (EDT)
> >>"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>>yup, it's there, but it really doesn't do anything yet.  i think if
> >>>you drag it onto a text editor, if the editor supports it, you'll get
> >>>the text of the item, but that's about it for now.  after i figure out
> >>>how tod o it properly, you'll be able to drop onto the panel to add a 
> >>>launcher.  maybe in a couple weeks.
> >> 
> >>i think we should discuss this together.
> >>panel dnd implementation is really useful for appfinder (it is why
> >>appfinder has been developed). Actual dnd implementation is just to pass
> >>the path of the .desktop file and it works with menu editor (appfinder
> >>can dnd things to menueditor).
> >>
> >>What about it Brian?
> > 
> > i've already talked to jasper about this, and the problem is that 
> > there's no easy way to create a launcher programmatically (i.e., from 
> > within the panel.
> > 
> > for xfdesktop, at the point that we're doing a drag, we don't know what 
> > the .desktop file is.  actually, there may not even _be_ a .desktop 
> > file, since it may be a manually created entry in menu.xml.  so, i'm 
> > basically sending the "contents" of the .desktop file (generated myself) 
> > as the drag data.  obviously, if the panel can be made to support this, 
> > adding support for receiving a text/uri (of the .desktop file) is 
> > trivial.
> > 
> > anything i'm missing?
> 
> For now, I think it would be nice to support DND of x-desktop-file 
> target to the launcher dialog. It's not perfect, but it's better than 
> nothing.

mm, that sounds doable, but i'm not sure how useful it is.  well, i 
suppose it's useful, since it would save you on typing, but it's not a 
very discoverable feature, and it just sounds like a hack to me: "we 
didn't have time to implement proper DnD on the panel so you can use 
this instead".  i _almost_ think it isn't "better than nothing".  *sigh*  
i'll look at it sometime this week.

    -brian