Re: [rox-devel] DnD Feature

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:57:18AM +1100, Lucas Hazel wrote:
> One of the new features of ROXget-005 will be to load with a URL from
> the clipboard, which got me wondering. Why can't you drag and drop
> highlighed text? Overlooked feature or not a good idea?
> 
> If theres no real reason this hasnt been done, I might have a go at
> implementing it, is the middle mouse button click currently assigned to
> anything, if not middle clicking on an app dir to send it the clipboard
> as its argument would be kinda nifty i think.

Middle button already does lots of things. However:

- Dragging a file to gnome-terminal pastes the filename.
- Selecting a file and clicking the middle button pastes the filename.
- Highlighting a path in the path minibuffer and pressing Ctrl-C copies
  the pathname to the clipboard if you really need it.


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