Philip Walden wrote:
I upgraded my Fedoral 14 (Gnome 2.4?) to 16 (Gnome 3.2?) the other day
and I am working through the UI changes.
The one that stymies me the most is that I can no longer figure out
how to drag and drop a url from Firefox onto a custom launcher. I had
a custom launcher that wrapped get_flash_videos. I simply dragged a
link to a video page to the launcher on the *top panel* and viola it
launched a terminal with get_flash_videos downloading the video.
I got the launcher to appear in the Activities/Applications list. I
just added the desktop file below to ~/.local/share/applications
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=true
Icon=camera-video.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;
Exec=getvid %u
MimeType=text/x-uri;
Name=GetVideo
GenericName=GetVideo
Comment=Invokes get_flash_videos.
Comment[en]=Invokes get_flash_videos.
However, I cannot figure out how to drag and drop an object (url) onto
it.
If I click on something (a link in FireFox) and drag it up to the
Activities menu, I cannot access the Applications list without
releasing the mouse button and losing the object I am dragging.
I have a different Gnome 3.2 installation that is in fallback mode. If I
place the above launcher on the top panel (which I cannot do with the
full Gnome 3.2), the drag and drop works as before.
It looks like the use of custom launchers and drag-n-drop has fallen by
the wayside with the full Gnome 3 experience.
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