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Support drag-and-drop of URLs from web browsers onto the Desktop #21

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probonopd opened this issue Dec 12, 2020 · 6 comments
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Support drag-and-drop of URLs from web browsers onto the Desktop #21

probonopd opened this issue Dec 12, 2020 · 6 comments
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@probonopd
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The nemo file manager seems to support this. So should we.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1008821

My solution: use the nemo file manager (sudo apt install nemo) instead of Ubuntu's default of nautilus. Now, in nemo you can just drag and drop links right out of the Chrome/Chromium browser search bar and into the nemo file manager. Done!
@probonopd probonopd changed the title Enable drag-and-drop of URLs from Chrome Support drag-and-drop of URLs from Chrome Dec 12, 2020
@probonopd probonopd added the good first issue Good for newcomers label Dec 12, 2020
@probonopd probonopd added the enhancement New feature or request label Dec 20, 2020
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I'm just touching up on my C++, it's been a while since I've used it, but if i
you change the dragEnterEvent code to check if the URI uses HTTP or FTP, you can use a Qt function to download the file.

I know how to do it in QML...

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probonopd commented May 25, 2021 •
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dragEnterEvent

Maybe @moochris can help?

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ghost commented May 25, 2021

I'll have a look 🙂

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probonopd commented Jun 28, 2021 •
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It looks like dnddest.cpp has the beginnings of this for the text/uri-list MIME type?

References:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Drag_and_Drop_API/Recommended_drag_types#link

But when you drag-and-drop from e.g., Falkon to the Desktop and select "Create symlink", then we get "Operation not supported".

@probonopd probonopd changed the title Support drag-and-drop of URLs from Chrome Support drag-and-drop of URLs from web browsers onto the Desktop Jun 28, 2021
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Upstream does also not support this yet.

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It's been implemented.

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