Bug 276479

Summary: wish: add feature to copy/move image files from digikam to filemanager on non-kde desktop
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Jonas Meurer <jonas>
Component: Portability-RuntimeAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, jonas
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.9.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.6.0

Description Jonas Meurer 2011-06-25 18:29:08 UTC 
Version:           1.9.0 (using KDE 4.6.4) 
OS:                Linux

Currently it's rather complicated to copy image files from digikam to an open filemanager on non-kde (e.g. gnome) desktop. If I drag a image in digikam, and drop it into the filemanager (nautilus) 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open digikam in a non-kde desktop environment, drag an image in digikam, and drop it into a filemanager (or on the desktop).

Actual Results:  
The image file is moved from the original place to the new one.

Expected Results:  
Either the image should be copied, or another way to copy images from digikam to another place should be given.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2011-06-27 11:28:08 UTC 
Gnome must support open desktop standard to be able to play with other applications. D&D into digiKam use Qt4 api :

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/dnd.html#interoperating-with-other-applications 

This work fine under Macosx and Windows. Why not Gnome...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Jonas Meurer 2011-10-03 07:55:47 UTC 
It seems that others discovered the drag&drop issue with gnome as well:

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2010-April/010285.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1161994
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/digikam/+bug/382557

Apparently the fix is easy: press <Ctrl> while dragging the image, and it will be copied instead of moved.