19424 - PP: Dragging from Location Input to other programs fails in X

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9642

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[jafl]

Overview description:

Clicking and dragging the icon at the left of the location input field
to another program that supports XDND doesn't transfer the text.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Download

  ftp://ftp.pma.caltech.edu/pub/jafl/xdnd/xdnd-v4-binary-Linux-Intel.tgz

  This is for use on Linux glibc 2.1 systems.  I can provide the source if you
  need to run it on a different Linux/UNIX variant.

2) Click and drag icon at the left of the location input field in Mozilla.

3) Observe the output printed by the XDND test binary:

   a) The data type "application/x-rootwin-drop" should actually be
      "application/x-rootwindow-drop" as specified in the XDND v4 spec at
      http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/drop_on_root.html

   b) The drop action doesn't change when the Meta key is pressed/released,
      only when the mouse is moved after pressing/releasing the Meta key.
      (The drop will only be accepted when the action is "copy")

   c) When the mouse is released, the drop fails because the data type
      "text/plain" cannot be retrieved by the XDND test program.  (The test
      program will automatically print the contents of "text/plain" if it can
      retrieve it.)

   d) When the drop action is "ask" (by holding down the Meta key), the test
      program is unable to complete the drop because the action list contains
      two actions while the description list is empty.  This is explained at
      http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/ in the Technical Details section
      under XdndActionList and XdndActionDescription.

Comment 1

[joki (gone)]

Pink, not sure if you handle Linux dnd as well but I'll let you figure who to
drop this on.

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

yeah, d&d is not yet implemented on linux/gtk. reassigning to blizzard.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

adding myself to the cc list.

Comment 4

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9642 ***

Comment 5

[Joseph Elwell]

[bugday] verifying as duplicate, linux drag drop support - targetted for M14.

Comment 6

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Please ignore the spam.  Changing address.

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

bustage from my reassign

Comment 8

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

bustage from my reassign