konqueror drag and drop problem in detailed list view with enlightenment virtual desktops

[temp1_snover at iprimus.com.au]

Hi all,

i apologise if this message seems directed to the wrong mailing list,
but i thought i would start here. Almost noone else in the world seems
to have this problem, so i dont think i will get much help elsewhere. 
i am also a software engineer myself, so, if people can give me 
some advice on where to start I can have a go at finding/fixing the 
problem myself.

Anyway. I am being driven mad by a problem with konqueror and 
enlightenment. When using detailed list view, drag and drop soon 
fails on every virtual desktop except the first. Icon view continues to 
work fine on every desktop ...

What happens when i drag a file from the file list over to the folder list, is 
that instead of the folder highlighting in orange, i get the round circle 
with diagonal line through it, indicating my file cannot be dropped. It is
absolutely infuriating, and renders konqueror useless on every desktop 
except the first. 

Occasionally, i have also seen another problem, whereby the (attempted) 
destination folder in Konq. fails to highlight as i mouseover with the file im 
dragging. Then, when i drop, up pops a gnome create launcher window 
with the file path/name if the file i am dragging entered in. That problem 
doesnt happen often, but once it starts, it continues until i kill the 
gnome-panel. Konqueror will then go back to the round circle, telling me 
i just cant drop my file anywhere.

The problem is unpleasantly hard to nail down. If i log in with a brand new 
e config, up the number of virtual desktops to something like my usual 
2x9, everything will be fine for a while. Konqueror will work perfectly on 
every desktop.

I can copy the e config aside for future reference, use e for a while, and
then suddenly drag and drop will fail for every konqueror that is started on 
any desktop besides the first. Nothing seems to bring it back once it fails,
short of logging out, removing e config, and starting again. The frustration 
starts when i diff a working e config with one that fails. There are 
absolutely no differences that would make e behave differently. Whats
more, i have backed up working e configs, and, once my e config fails, 
restoring a previously good backup of the e config fails too. The only way 
to get it working is to start with a clean e config. Its quite inexplicable at
this stage

i never had this problem with kde 3.1, it started with kde3.2 and continues 
with kde3.3.1

The problem never happens when i do a full KDE login. So i assumed 
the problem was caused by one of the kdeinit processes which konqueror 
might rely on not being started when i use enlightenment. I have therefore 
tried manually starting every kdeinit process i normally see in a full kde 
session: knotify, kde_uiserver, klauncher etc etc. But none of these 
processes help at all. I've also tried manually running startkde to do all 
of that for me, and it didnt help.

It looks to me like konqueror is failing to receive some sort of IPC telling 
it where my file is being dragged. And possibly not receiving the drop 
events either - allowing gnome-panel to receive them sometimes, 
somehow.

i found this post below which describes a similar problem ages ago in 
KDE 2. This fellow did not receive any feedback.

From: Ashley Collins 
Subject: KDE 2 with Enlightenment.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.kde
Date: 2001-08-16 17:45:21 PST
I'm using KDE 2.2 in Debian unstable with Enlightenment 0.16.5
I've noticed a couple of things:
- Konqueror doesn't swallow KJAS applets
- Drag & Drop is still broken on the second screen of a xinerama multihead 
set up.
Both these are fixed by running kwn and the KDE environment. However, I 
much prefer to use E.
Has anyone had any success with using E and KDE2 together?
Thanks in advance.
Ashley

Any ideas or help tracking this problem down will be appreciated. 

John