Re: [Nautilus-list] FWD: Re: Allowing directories to be dragged from Nautilus into gnome-terminal

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

The gnome-core maintainer (where gnome-terminal is maintained) is George
Jirka. I have cc'ed him in this response, so hopefully he can get in
touch with you and tell you what you need to do.

cheers,

-Seth

On 13 Jun 2001 14:28:51 -0700, Jarosiewicz wrote:
> Per Brian Nitz (SUN Microsystems) I am forwarding this to this list.
> 
> Orest Jarosiewicz
> TIAA-CREF
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:52:25 +0100 (BST) 
> From: Brian Nitz <bn128650 ireserver Ireland Sun COM> 
> Reply-to: Brian Nitz <bn128650 ireserver Ireland Sun COM> 
> Subject: Re: Allowing directories to be dragged from Nautilus into
> gnome-terminal 
> To: orestnyc yahoo com 
>          
>  
> 
> 
> Orest,
> 
> Thank you very much for your work in investigating and suggesting 
> a fix which adds drag-drop file capability between Nautilus and
> gnome-terminals.  I forwarded your suggestion to our internal 
> group but I suggest that you should submit it to the official 
> nautilus mailing list:   nautilus-list lists eazel com
> or the main gnome mail list: gnome-list gnome org for discussion.  
> Sun works closely with the GNOME and Nautilus communities but we
> can't 
> make such a change without the approval of the community.  It is also
> 
> important for the author of the change (you) to get credit.  Good
> luck!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:51:02 GMT
> >To: gnome-1 4-feedback Sun COM
> >From: orestnyc yahoo com
> >Subject: Allowing directories to be dragged from Nautilus into 
> gnome-terminal
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >[Sun may use this data to contact me on related announcements]: no
> >[Sun may share this data with their business associates]: no
> >[Name]: Orest Jarosiewicz
> >[Subject]: Allowing directories to be dragged from Nautilus into 
> gnome-terminal
> >[Email]: orestnyc yahoo com
> >[Question detail]: (TEXT BELOW)
> >Gnome allows one to drag a directory from GMC & drop it into a 
> gnome-terminal.  
> The result is that the full path to
> >the directory is pasted.  However, I noticed that I could not drag a
> 
> directory 
> from NAUTILUS and drop it into
> >gnome-terminal.
> >
> >After some browsing of the source code, I made two small changes to 
> gnome-terminal.c to enable this feature.
> >Both changes are in configure_term_dnd().  The first change is I
> added 
> one line 
> to target_table:
> >
> >	static GtkTargetEntry target_table[] = {
> >                { "STRING",     0, TARGET_STRING },
> >                { "text/plain", 0, TARGET_STRING },
> >                { "application/x-color", 0, TARGET_COLOR },
> >                { "property/bgimage",    0, TARGET_BGIMAGE },
> >                { "text/uri-list", 0, TARGET_STRING } /* Orest -
> this 
> allows 
> one to drop a directory from Nautilus */
> >        };
> >
> >The second change is in gtk_drag_dest_set:
> >
> >	gtk_drag_dest_set (GTK_WIDGET (term),
> >                           GTK_DEST_DEFAULT_MOTION |
> >                           GTK_DEST_DEFAULT_HIGHLIGHT |
> >                           GTK_DEST_DEFAULT_DROP,
> >                           target_table, 5, /* Orest - changed '4'
> to 
> '5' */
> >                           GDK_ACTION_COPY);
> >
> >I compiled & tried this on Solaris 8 on a sparc.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Orest Jarosiewicz
> >TIAA-CREF
> 
> 
> 
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