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Bug 564589 - Send files with DnD
Send files with DnD
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595226
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: File Transfer
2.25.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
: 582231 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-12-15 10:41 UTC by Guillaume Desmottes
Modified: 2009-09-15 09:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Guillaume Desmottes 2008-12-15 10:41:40 UTC 
Drag and dropping a file from Nautilus to Empathy's contact list or a 1-1 chat window should send the file to this contact.
Comment 1 Jonny Lamb 2009-04-18 20:17:12 UTC 
I've started working on this today:

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/jonny/empathy.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dnd-ft
Comment 2 Jonny Lamb 2009-05-11 20:31:40 UTC 
*** Bug 582231 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Philippe Khalaf 2009-05-11 20:34:25 UTC 
Make sure we can drag pictures from our browsers.
Comment 4 Xavier Claessens 2009-05-12 08:52:21 UTC 
About DnD, something Guillaume did for xchat-gnome was a good idea:
When droping a text file on the chat window, if the file is big it initiate a file transfer, otherwise it sends as IM message.
Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-05-12 09:11:44 UTC 
Oh, I completely forgot I did that. It was ages ago. :)

That was only for txt file IIRC and actually I'm not sure that was a so good idea. Maybe we should always send the file to offer a coherent user experience.
Comment 6 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2009-05-12 13:30:24 UTC 
IMHO I think it the file is dragged from a browser, it should send the web link, otherwise initiate transfer.
Comment 7 Praveen Thirukonda 2009-06-27 14:12:13 UTC 
there seem to be some case-specific ideas here which if implemented do make the overall experience better but for sake of consistency whenever a "intelligent" decisionn is made for some specific cases there should be a easily accessible option (maybe right clicking) where there should be a option like "just send the file".
Comment 8 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-09-15 09:25:01 UTC 
Closing this bug as dup of #595226 as it has a branch attached.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 595226 ***