Re: [gnome-love] Adding DnD support to an application

[Nelson Benítez <gnel cenobioracing com>]

Trond Andersen wrote:
> I have added a bugzilla request for DnD support in Meld which is an
> application I use regulary in my daily work.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315528
>
> I've offered to help out with this, but I need some guidance since
> I've never worked with the GTK API and I've only written small scripts
> in Python. Since it doesn't seem like the maintainer is interested in
> adding DnD support, I thought I try to do an effort, but I think
> someone need to give me some hints.
>
> Does anyone care to help me out with this one?

I think you'll find very useful this bug report[1] about adding that
same feature to evince (DND of files from nautilus into evince to open
them) and the small patch[2] for it, with that and the DND api
documentation[3] I think you could do that.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164813
[2] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/shell/ev-window.c?r1=1.62&r2=1.63
[3] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Drag-and-Drop.html