[Kde-pim] Drag and drop of emails

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 08 November 2007, David Jarvie wrote:
> Is it possible to drag and drop emails from KMail to another
> application in KDE 4, like it was in KDE 3? I can't find any way of
> obtaining the email's body. In KDE 3, the body could be got by
> calling the DCOP function getDecodedBodyPart() in KMailIface, but
> that function doesn't appear to have been implemented in KDE 4. If
> this facility doesn't yet exist, are there plans for it to be written
> - or is it something that Akonadi will provide?

I'd say that only an identifier should be exchanged via drag&drop and 
the receiving application should then fetch the message from Akonadi.

OTOH, this won't work for applications that don't understand the 
identifier. A possible solution for this for arbitrary KDE applications 
would be an Akonadi kioslave and the thingy exchanged via drag&drop 
would be an akonadi: URL.

Of course, this won't work with non-KDE applications, e.g. you would not 
be able to drag a message from KMail to the desktop of another desktop 
environment.

So what are our requirements? (I guess for KAlarm any of the above 
solutions would work. And I think I'd prefer the akonadi: URL 
approach.)


Regards,
Ingo
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