Bug 33167 - [DND] Poor support for drag and drop between Eclipse and Linux
Summary: [DND] Poor support for drag and drop between Eclipse and Linux
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: needinfo
Depends on: 33093
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Reported: 2003-02-25 17:49 EST by Knut Radloff CLA
Modified: 2009-08-30 02:11 EDT (History)
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Description Knut Radloff CLA 2003-02-25 17:49:17 EST 
build RC1

Drag and drop support between Eclipse/Motif and Gnome and KDE is very spotty.
DND does not work at all between KDE and Eclipse/Motif. 
Ctrl+Drag from Eclipse/Motif to the Gnome desktop results in a Gnome error "An 
invalid drag type was used". Drag moving to Gnome is not accepted by Gnome 
(drag is cancelled). Dragging from Eclipse/Motif to Nautilus, the Gnome file 
manager, crashes Nautilus.
Dragging from Gnome into Eclipse/Motif does work fine.

Dragging from KDE into Eclipse/GTK does not seem to work. The other direction 
does.

See also bug 33093. In that bug Veronika mentions that the desktops have to use 
the X Dnd mechanisms for Dnd to work on KDE. 

To what extend is dnd supposed to work on Linux? It seems like it "almost" 
works with Gnome.
Comment 1 Knut Radloff CLA 2003-02-27 13:58:01 EST 
There are too many DnD variants not working on Linux. I don't think this is 
worth spending much time on at this point in the cycle.
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-03-11 15:37:51 EST 
Defer
Comment 3 Knut Radloff CLA 2003-04-07 11:47:10 EDT 
Investigate improving dnd on Linux for 2.2
Comment 4 Knut Radloff CLA 2003-09-02 17:13:28 EDT 
Reassigning to Nick since he is taking ownership of DND.
Comment 5 Nick Edgar CLA 2006-03-15 11:50:24 EST 
Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.
Comment 6 Eric Moffatt CLA 2006-06-23 15:41:31 EDT 
Cleaning up defect lists by setting ones without recent traffic to 'REMIND'.
Comment 7 Denis Roy CLA 2009-08-30 02:11:54 EDT 
As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.