On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 09:54:14AM -0400, pausmith_at_nortelnetworks.com wrote:
> %% Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de> writes:
>
> dv> In general, the d&d you will find on any UNIX isn't very
> dv> sophisticated. CDE has d&d, but it's limited to the few
> dv> applications that are CDE aware (i.e. the ones that are supplied
> dv> with CDE and perhaps a few others). KDE is said to get a very
> dv> advanced d&d interface in the future (2.0 release). I don't know
> dv> about GNOME, but I suppose it's similar.
>
> This is changing rapidly. Version 4 of the XDND protocol has been
> published and most of the major toolkits support it: Qt, GTK+ (1.2),
> etc. support it so KDE and Gnome will, as do some other tools. XEmacs
> is going to support it in the 22.x versions. StarOffice says they will
> in 6.0.
>
> So, it shouldn't be too long before you can drag and drop between all
> these different apps--that's exciting.
>
> http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
>
> They do list icewm and Window Maker as "window managers that use XDND",
> but it's not entirely clear to me what that means. I can see modules
> like FvwmButtons and FvwmWinList making use of it, certainly.
Perhaps the window manager is the client to receive d&d objects.
The action would be to place an icon on the desktop. But I can't
imagine what the window manager should do when a file is dropped
into it (i.e. what application it should start). In fvwm there
should be a module to handle d&d, I think.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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