On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 21:57, Oki DZ wrote: > BTW, the other day I ran remote nautilus and local nautilus. > File drag&drop didn't work between them. Was it Gnome2's expected > behaviour?
I very much doubt that that will be possible anytime soon. Here's why: When you drag a file from one window to another, the target window receives a path/filename. In order for "remote nautilus" to know how to retrieve a file on the local machine, "local nautilus" would have to send it a URI, but how does it know what the URI should be? should it be http://local_machine:9999/filename or ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/local_user/filename? etc. I suppose the solution to that problem would be for drag and drop to use some sort of X-provided IPC protocol to send the actual file data between the windows, but I don't think that is something that is likely to happen, especially since it would break compatibility with all other DND programs, and would probably have a significant performance impact. FWIW, even Citrix, which operates in a much more controlled environment, doesn't let you drag-n-drop files in that fashion. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
