Bug 37824

Summary:	add drag and drop into terminal window
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Arie Folger <afolger>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Arie Folger 2002-02-04 19:12:50 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           konsole
Version:           KDE 2.2.2 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Not Specified
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

It would be great to make konsole aware of the directory it is in so that a file can be 
dragged onto the konsole window and that file would be copied
into the $PWD. Right now the terminal's power is a little (just a tiny little) limited in that it doesn't interact with  other windows at all unless one knows specific switches.  Drag and drop should be a tremendous boon.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2002-03-12 18:24:41 UTC

Konsole is not in a directory your shell perhaps is. We could extend the 
drag and drop popup-menu with "Copy" "Link" and "Move" entries but this 
would of course only work if source & destination are in local file system.

Comment 2 Arie Folger 2002-03-13 20:06:29 UTC

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 13:24 you wrote:
> Konsole is not in a directory your shell perhaps is. We could extend the
> drag and drop popup-menu with "Copy" "Link" and "Move" entries but this
> would of course only work if source & destination are in local file system.

This is a step but I think that the technique becomes truly useful when it 
allows to do things using drag and drop that cannot be done with a simple 
command. Thus since downloading a jpeg image displayed in konqueror into a 
particular directory cannot easily be done with one command (unless the 
location in the cache is known) drag and drop becomes an interesting 
addition to the CLI.

Think of it in a different way can Konqueror have a shell plugin that allows 
drag and drop? The shell plugin already exists but does not support drag and 
drop yet.
-- 
Arie Folger
Research databases at Stern

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2002-03-17 11:09:23 UTC

> The shell plugin already exists but does not support drag and drop yet.

It's not a shell plugin it`s a terminal emulator. That's a big difference.

Comment 4 Arie Folger 2002-03-17 16:30:56 UTC

On Sunday 17 March 2002 6:09 you wrote:
> > The shell plugin already exists but does not support drag and drop yet.
>
> It's not a shell plugin it`s a terminal emulator. That's a big difference.

Is that doable though?

-- 
Arie Folger
Research databases at Stern

Comment 5 Stephan Binner 2002-03-23 14:13:35 UTC

Everything is with a certain amount of effort. :-)

Comment 6 Stephan Binner 2002-04-06 15:29:07 UTC

The popupmenu has been extended with "cp" "ln" and "mv" entries.
I don't think "real" drag and drop will be ever implemented.