mmm, not sure about this.... while I like the idea it would mean to drop the feature where you can drop a file not only in the view but in the rest of the window.

I also don't want to drop that feature!  I think if you drop in the terminal it should paste the path, but if you drop elsewhere it should open the file.  Not sure how easy that would be.  :)

I have to check more... maybe we would need some kind of extension point in the window to handle the drop... dunno I will have to ask somebody with more experience in drag and drop. pbor?

So I was thinking a bit more on this, we can simply have our own subclass of VteTerminal and handle the drag and just chain up if it is different than a uri what we get. This is similar to what we do right now in GeditView.

Can you please try it out?

I tried out your change.  Looks promising, but when I drag into the embedded terminal, it pastes in a URL like this:

   'file:///home/adam/foo'

But when I drag from Nautilus into an external gnome-terminal, I get this:

   '/home/adam/foo' 

This latter form is more useful.  Can we make the embedded terminal paste that?

I don't know how I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. Now it should be fixed.

Working great now - thanks!