[FreeNX-kNX] drag and drop

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 16:21, Michal Nowikowski wrote:

> I was wondering if it is possible to add such feature like drag and drop
> for copying files between local and remote computer using NX technology.
> I was investigating this concept. It occurs that nxagent and nxclient
> and nxserver/freenx
> probably should be modified. Copying from local to remote computer could
> look like:
> 1. drag file and drop onto window of nxclient
> 2. nxclient detects it and sends some command to nx server over ssh
> (for example start ftp over nxproxy)
> 3. transfer file to the remote computer using ftp
> 
> Copying backward would look like:
> 1. drag from remote computer desktop to the edge of window
> 2. nxagent detects this event and sends some command to nx client
> 3. then ftp over nxproxy is started
> 4. file is transfered from remote to local host
> 
> It is possible to modify nxagent and freenx because it is OSS.

Yes, this sounds exciting.
Have you code? Will you start producing some?

Cheers,
Kurt