[UNIX] Drag'n'Drop

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Mon Feb 5 16:47:37 UTC 2001


> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm wondering how we want to deal with DnD in X. There are basically two
> protocols to consider: Motif and Xdnd. The newer desktops all support
> Xdnd, while the old commercial apps (notably Netscape 4) use Motif. A
> comparison can be found at
> 
> 	http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/ose/gnome_kde/related/dnd/
> 
> IMHO we should implement Xdnd support. The official reference is at


I vote for this as well.  Mozilla (if/when it ever materializes in a stable
way) also supports XDND, as does StarOffice.

Given that HP and Sun are going to use GNOME as the default desktops for
future HPUX and Solaris releases, XDND is the way to go.


> 
> 	http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/
> 
> Is there someone who wants to spend some time on this? 
> 
> :-)
> 
> -- Bert
> 





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