Re: FVWM: drag'n drop

From: Paul D. Smith <pausmith_at_nortelnetworks.com>
Date: 10 Jun 1999 14:20:30 -0400

%% Richard Lister <ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu> writes:

>> http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/

>> They do list icewm and Window Maker as "window managers that use
>> XDND", but it's not entirely clear to me what that means. I can
>> see modules like FvwmButtons and FvwmWinList making use of it,
>> certainly.

  rl> I think with windowmaker it means you can have active apps in the
  rl> 'dock' (wm's buttons/toolbar), whereby dropping an object (file,
  rl> url, text, etc) on the app will trigger an appropriate action.

Yep... and FVWM's equivalent to the dock is FvwmButtons, thus my comment
above :)

IOW, I can't think of anything the _core_ FVWM app would do with D&D,
but I can think of things that some of the _modules_ could do,
certainly.

I think it would be _'WAY_ cool if FvwmButtons supported D&D... I'd have
to look more closely at the protocol, though, to see how the FvwmButtons
configuration language would need to be extended to support it; I guess
you'd want to define new kinds of actions for the different types of
things that could be dropped on a button.

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Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 13:22:21 BST

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