Bug 91949 - Add support for drag actions
Summary: Add support for drag actions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Wayland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wayland (show other bugs)
Version: 1.5.0
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Wayland bug list
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Blocks: 91948
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Reported: 2015-09-09 21:00 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2016-03-17 02:00 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Catanzaro 2015-09-09 21:00:55 UTC 
Desktop environments like GNOME require that a drag be associated with a particular action. For example, when nautilus is running under X, holding down Ctrl when dragging files forces the files to be copied, while holding Shift forces the files to be moved [1]. We're basically expecting to have a replacement for XDND actions (XdndActionCopy, XdndActionMove, XdndActionLink, XdndActionAsk, XdndActionPrivate) [2].

[3] adds this feature to the Wayland protocol, and [4] implements it for Weston.

[1] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-copy.html.en
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XDND/#index8h2
[3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022517.html
[4] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022518.html

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