GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 569396
dnd albums to nautilus should create directories
Last modified: 2009-01-27 22:55:04 UTC
the bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314244 "Imagine you want to copy all two disks of an artist to your external mp3 player: "artist 1" → "disk 1", "disk 2" → "song 1a", "song 1b", "song 1c", "song 2a", "song 2b", "song 2c". If you grab the artist's name in the browser and drag it to the mp3 player in the side panel, RB creates a folder in the player called "artist 1", with two folders inside: "disk 1" and "disk 2". Each of these with the corresponding songs inside. Which is the way files should be copied. But if you grab the artist's name in the browser and drag it to a nautilus folder, all the files get copied right there, with no categorizing: "song 1a", "song 1b", "song 1c", "song 2a", "song 2b" and "song 2c". That makes songs much harder to find afterwards. Could dragging to a nautilus folder result instead in the categorizing described above?"
This isn't really possible with normal drag and drop, as we only supply a source location to nautilus. It might be possible with X Direct Save, but who knows how well supported that is.. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 329267 ***
Nautilus supports it. Fwiw, I started some really early experiment on that matter, but it's not finished yet :-/ It's http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/rhythmbox/log/?h=xds but once again, it's just some really early experiments, nothing usable at all atm