433093 - Cannot Drag & Drop into Pixelmator

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[u309409]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050901 Camino/2.0a1pre (like Firefox/3.0pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050901 Camino/2.0a1pre (like Firefox/3.0pre)

Images cannot be dropped into Pixelmator's icon to open them. It does, however, work to drop them into Photoshop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a page with just an image (or find an image on the page)
2.Click and drag
3.Drop into Pixelmator icon in dock
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Icon should highlight, dropping should open file in application

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Sounds like Pixelmator isn't accepting the drag data we're giving it, which is likely to be a bug in Pixelmator.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Unless Firefox 3 can drag into Pixelmator, this should live in Widget:Cocoa anyway.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

After a little bit of random poking, I tend to think there's a good chance that this is a Pixelmator bug. It looks like they want a promised file (the image they open is something from TemporaryItems). We do include a promised file in our drag, but Safari's is front-and-center, while ours in further down in the list of flavors.

We have a few other bugs about apps only looking at the first flavor on the pasteboard and making sure we put the image data before the url and urln/urld data, and maybe moving promised file to the head of the pasteboard, followed by the image data, would fix this.

Confirming because there is indeed a problem here, but it's possible it's not really ours and this might be INVALID.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Someone should probably give a heads-up to the Pixelmator devs about this bug.

Comment 5

[u309409]

I already did. I filed an identical bug report as soon as you pointed out that it was probably a Pixelmator bug.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Kevin, what have you heard from them about it so far? Anything?

Comment 7

[u309409]

Nope. I haven't gotten a single response.

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

See also bug 323555 of which this may be a dupe.

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> See also bug 323555 of which this may be a dupe.

Not if that bug's on Windows ;)

Someone who knows the Cocoa drag/pasteboard code should see if simply changing the order we put flavors on the pasteboard fixes this--or maybe this bug is just http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/widget/src/cocoa/nsDragService.mm&rev=1.33&mark=448#448

Comment 10

[neekbeta]

This has been fixed, I just confirmed drag and drop from Firefox (53.0) to Pxelmator’s (3.6) dock icon works just fine.

Comment 11

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Thanks, neekbeta! We changed the drag & drop API on OSX in bug 1235162. Based on this and comment 10, I'm going to close this bug as resolved.