Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] [PATCH] Drag'n drop is back!

["Damien Sandras" <dsandras seconix com>]

Well, sorry if I'm off-thread, because I didn't read everything yet
(and won't probably read the rst until next week), but having it
working with evo 1.4 doesn't matter as evo 1.4 is not EDS-based anyway.

For the rest, Julien will debug. Great work Snark!

Le 17/7/2004, "Kilian Krause" <kk verfaction de> a écrit:

>Hi Julien,
>
>Am Sa, den 17.07.2004 schrieb PUYDT Julien um 13:55:
>> Le sam, 17/07/2004 à 13:21 +0200, Kilian Krause a écrit :
>> > well, ok here's a first trial results:
>> > - dragging to the tray icon doesn't pop-up the addressbook.. i need to
>> > open it before dragging to make it available
>> 
>> You mean you would like to be able to drop a contact on the addressbook
>> icon?
>
>well, dragging onto a minimized or not-on-top window entry in the
>windowlist does popup that window on top.. I thought maybe hidden to
>tray could also work like that.. Maybe just dropping a contact onto
>there should add it to the Addressbook.
>
>> > - draggin the email address from evo 1.4 to the address book doesn't get
>> > it listed in "Personal". I've dropped it below the "hello ximian com"
>> > entry, so i hope that's ok. Dropping it on the "Personal" entry itself
>> > doesn't make any difference though. 
>> 
>> > Yet the funny part is that my Evo list does start scrolling while the
>> > addressbook window is over it.. So the active window is the Addressbook,
>> > but events go down to Evo (like if the Addressbook wasn't there)..
>> 
>> I don't understand where you drag from and where you drag to. The first
>> sentence says evo->gm, but the second talks about dropping in evo...
>
>That's the magic here. I drag evo->gm.. but the addressbook window does
>not get the drag focus. It has the regular window focus, but the effect
>of the hover drag does appear to evo 1.4.. Like i'd be dragging from
>within evo and no addressbook would be between the hovering mousecursor
>and the evo window. 
>
>> > What's the correct instructions to make it work then?
>> 
>> With the patch, you should be able to drag a contact from:
>> * evolution's contacts' list ;
>
>does't work with evo1.4 contacts to the addressbook.
>
>> * one of gnomemeeting's addressbooks' contacts' list ;
>> * gnomemeeting's call history;
>> and drop to:
>> * the name of an addressbook in evolution ;
>> * gnomemeeting's main window ;
>> * the name of a local addressbook in gnomemeeting;
>> * the part of the addressbook window that displays the list of a local
>> addressbook.
>> 
>> Notice: I have evolution 1.5 here, I hope that isn't the source of the
>> problem.
>
>well, it heavily looks like there's not a single effect with Evo1.4 and
>GM. Except that the d'n'd effect just passes straight through to the
>Addressbook window, resulting in Evo interacting to the d'n'd hover and
>the Addressbook completely ignoring it.
>
>-- 
>Best regards,
> Kilian