Re: Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Ivan Čukić
> haha.. when i'm in a good mood i code a lot? =) Well... yes :) > actually you'll want to update now; i didn't commit it until just a few > moments ago =) Ok, thanks :) -- Before you talk to me, I should warn you: I am kind of strange ___ Plasma-deve

Re: Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Ivan Čukić wrote: > > i've already done it =) > > Heh, I see you're in a good mood again :P haha.. when i'm in a good mood i code a lot? =) but yeah, akademy was great, the progress we've been making is awesome, the house is nice and quiet, my kitty cats are showering

Re: Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Ivan Čukić
> i've already done it =) Heh, I see you're in a good mood again :P Updating and testing... :) Cheerio. -- There is a better way of life and it's not so hard to find If you live and let the people in your world speak its mind -- Deep Purple ___ P

Re: Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Ivan Čukić wrote: > > the problem, however, is that applets do not expect a blob of data in > > memory, but a file on disk. which, i suppose, means we'll have to either > > create the temporary file in that method ourselves or expect applets to > > deal with memory blobs

Re: Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Ivan Čukić
> the problem, however, is that applets do not expect a blob of data in > memory, but a file on disk. which, i suppose, means we'll have to either > create the temporary file in that method ourselves or expect applets to > deal with memory blobs as well. i like the former. So temporary file it is :

Re: Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Ivan Čukić wrote: > I propose to add a way of handling all mime types as the mime type for > applets is handled. So, for example, if the user selects text from an > editor and starts dragging, he or she should be able to drop it onto the > desktop (for example to create

Plasma's Drag and Drop handling

2008-08-21 Thread Ivan Čukić
Hi all, The current way of plasma (pun intended) of handling Drag and Drop is a bit insufficient (IMO). We support only dragging the applets (from applet browser for example) and dragging the files. In the later case, according to file's mime type, a list of supported applets are retrieved. I