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[gtk-list] Re: Drag and Drop, try 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Fri Jun 13 13:00:48 1997
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 13:00:37 -0400
From: Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19970613124313.04356@redhat.com>; from Otto Hammersmith on Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 12:43:13PM -0400
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On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 12:43:13PM -0400, Otto Hammersmith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 11:41:21AM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Martynas Kunigelis wrote:
> >
> > > Note that most probably KDE will use a different protocol in a near
> > > future, since Troll Tech promised to add Drand And Drop to Qt 1.3,
> > > which is promised to be released "in summer". Hope the Trolls will
> > > choose a good protocol, they always do the right thing programmingwise.
> > > If only Qt was LGPL!
> > >
> > > It would be nice, however, if gtk would support DND to/from KDE, since
> >
> > That would be nice.
> >
> > Here's what I would like to do:
> > Get talking with Troll Tech, the OffiX people (who seem to be
> > rather lax in maintaining things), and you KDE people, along with
> > the people on this list, and figure out what would be the ultimate
> > drag and drop protocol. I can't find docs on Motif protocol, but I
> > suspect it would be a very good place to start.
> >
> > Then once we have agreed on a protocol, things will work much better.
>
> I think this is a very Good Idea. Can you draft a message to send to
> the various appropriate mailing lists. (I have a feeling a post to
> usenet would generate an awful lot of krfut... enough to justify a
> cross-mailing list post.) I suppose a post to comp.os.linux.apps might
> not be soooo bad....
Okay, ignore that brain-fart. I didn't see the cc: line.. and still
don't.. I guess the mailing list stripped it out or something dumb
like that. *sigh*
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-Otto.
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