Bug 168154

Summary: folderview drag-drop does not accept .desktop drops
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason>
Component: generalAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: dolphin-bugs-null, elvis.angelaccio, emmanuelpescosta099, peter.penz19
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: dolphinview patch

Description Jason A. Donenfeld 2008-08-02 22:40:03 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

There is no support for dragging files to the target of .desktop links (i.e. a .desktop file with "Type=Link URL[$e]=..."). This feature was in kde3 and was invaluable.

Steps:
1. Right click, choose Create New-->Link to Location (URL), enter a folder's url or even an ftp server (kioslave should take care of it).
2. Drag a file to the newly created link.

Result: The link is not seen as a drop target.
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-08-03 02:29:15 UTC 
we use libkonq for this functionality.
Comment 2 Jason A. Donenfeld 2008-08-04 09:37:12 UTC 
This should be reassigned to the libkonq team.
Comment 3 Peter Penz 2008-08-04 09:44:29 UTC 
libkonq team == David Faure :-) @David: please let me know if I can help or should take over this task
Comment 4 David Faure 2008-09-11 10:58:24 UTC 
Implemented in KonqOperations, this might fix the bug for the folderview case.

But in "konqueror desktop:/" (where I tried to test it), DolphinView::dropUrls doesn't let us drop a file onto a file, it always drops onto the current directory. Fixed. Ah but then it doesn't call KonqOperations::doDrop but does its own thing. That's a TODO in the dolphin code.
Comment 5 David Faure 2008-09-11 11:01:37 UTC 
Created attachment 27368 [details]
dolphinview patch

For Dolphin I have the following patch, but it's not enough (and the if below needs to be adjusted...)
Comment 6 Emmanuel Pescosta 2013-04-10 19:15:05 UTC 
It works for me in Dolphin 2.2.
Comment 7 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-12-10 14:13:24 UTC 
This seems to work nowadays (and Dolphin switched to KIO::DropJob anyway)