Hi Damjan, It would be great to see better support for Linux desktops, one thing which seems to have/had (understandable) a bit lower priority for Sun. At least I don't know such a project or anybody working on this.
Good luck, lg Clemens 2007/9/25, Damjan Jovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > >From what I can tell, Java has superb support for the XDND protocol, > yet it has zero support for the X file drag specification > (http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/dragging_files.html) which is > part of that protocol. This means file drops to Java apps do not work > as expected on any freedesktop environment (at least Gnome, very > likely KDE and XFCE as well). > > I've already written an X file drag implementation for wine > (http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2007-June/033705.html) and I > think it's about time Java started working too. > > If nobody has any objections and nobody is already working on it, I'd > like to have a go at fixing this. > > Since text/uri-list is more general than a file list, would the right > approach be dropping non-file URIs? > > Thank you > Damjan Jovanovic >
