On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:52:03AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > 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?
What about automatically resort to the sftp://? Say, copying from local to remote, the remote nautilus would accept whatever path it gets, and then add sftp://sourcehost in the beginning of the path. > 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, Question is, does Gnome support drag&drop protocol on different hosts? Or does X, as the underlying plumbing? > FWIW, even Citrix, which operates in a much more controlled environment, > doesn't let you drag-n-drop files in that fashion. Well, I believe that fact shouldn't stop you from (imagining) having a neater environment on X. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
