Version: unspecified OS: Linux When dragging and dropping a file from a zip using file roller to a dolphin window, nothing happens when it should extract that to the dolphin folder Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: na Actual Results: na Expected Results: na na
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
I can confirm the bug. Ubuntu 12.10, File Roller 3.6.1.1, KDE 4.93, Dolphin 2.1: When I open an archive with File Roller and try to drop a file from inside the archive to Dolphin, nothing happens.
Thanks for reporting this. Quick question: Does dragging files from Ark to Nautilus work? I think that this might not exactly be a Dolphin bug, but possibly just the non-existence of a common drag&drop standard for extracting files.
Dragging from Ark to Dolphin works just fine here. OS: openSUSE 12.2. Platform: KDE 4.9.3 "release 520". Ark: ark-4.9.3-29.1.i586
(In reply to comment #4) > Dragging from Ark to Dolphin works just fine here. Yes, we all know dolphin+ark works. The question is whether natilus+ark works
Dragging from Ark to Nautilus doesn't work for me, neither does File Roller to Dolphin, while dragging from Ark to Dolphin and from File Roller to Nautilus work.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > Dragging from Ark to Dolphin works just fine here. > > Yes, we all know dolphin+ark works. The question is whether natilus+ark works Should not be the product in this bug be changed to Nautilus then?
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #5) > > (In reply to comment #4) > > > Dragging from Ark to Dolphin works just fine here. > > > > Yes, we all know dolphin+ark works. The question is whether natilus+ark works > > Should not be the product in this bug be changed to Nautilus then? I meant ARK, since Nautilus is not part of KDE. Sorry about that.
(In reply to comment #8) > > Should not be the product in this bug be changed to Nautilus then? > > I meant ARK, since Nautilus is not part of KDE. Sorry about that. Well, if the problem is the lack of a common drag&drop protocol for extracting files, none of the involved applications is buggy IMHO. @Raphael: could you comment on this issue?
(In reply to comment #9) > Well, if the problem is the lack of a common drag&drop protocol for > extracting files, none of the involved applications is buggy IMHO. > > @Raphael: could you comment on this issue? You are correct; I can't comment on the Nautilus/File Roller side, but I think they do something similar to our current solution, which basically boils down to Dolphin telling Ark via D-Bus that it should extract files to a certain directory when it receives a drag with some custom MIME types (namely, `application/x-kde-ark-dndextract-service' and `application/x-kde-ark-dndextract-path').
(In reply to comment #10) > You are correct; I can't comment on the Nautilus/File Roller side, but I > think they do something similar to our current solution, which basically > boils down to Dolphin telling Ark via D-Bus that it should extract files to > a certain directory when it receives a drag with some custom MIME types > (namely, `application/x-kde-ark-dndextract-service' and > `application/x-kde-ark-dndextract-path'). Thanks Raphael! The question now is if there is some interest in getting in touch with the GNOME people and try to come up with a common standard, because it seems that people really try to do cross-desktop drag&drop to extract files. What we could do on the Dolphin side would be to investigate the GNOME source code to find out what their drag&drop protocol is and implement that in the code that accepts drops, but this would be a bad soluion IMHO - just imagine that the GNOME people decide to change their protocol at some point, this would break it again for people dropping File Roller drags in Dolphin. And I really don't want to scan File Roller's source code regularly for changes in that area ;-)
(In reply to comment #11) > Thanks Raphael! The question now is if there is some interest in getting in > touch with the GNOME people and try to come up with a common standard, > because it seems that people really try to do cross-desktop drag&drop to > extract files. This would be really nice; the only problem is that I can't spearhead this initiative myself due to lack of time these days :/
I don't have the time for that either :-( But maybe some of the other people here are motivated to do something to get this implemented. Just to provide a possible starting point: I see some drag&drop-related stuff in http://git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller/tree/src/fr-window.c I'm not good at reading GTK-based code though...
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