Repeat message: Context-sensitive drag 'n' drop in KDE.

[e-mail robert.m.davies]

Dear all,

I sent the following message a fair while back, but it seems to have
got lost in the ether, so I'm trying again.

Please read below.

Rob

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: e-mail robert.m.davies <robert.m.davies at blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: 18 March 2012 11:33
Subject: Context-sensitive drag 'n' drop in KDE.
To: kfm-devel at kde.org


Hello all,

Following some discussion on these bugs:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287762
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154804

I would be willing (eager in fact) to implement some code to enable
context-sensitive drag 'n' drop functionality in LibKonq, whereby
files that are dragged within disk partitions are moved, while those
that are dragged across partition/disk boundaries are copied
(potentially creating links if dragged to the desktop?). Similar
functionality exists in (amongst others) Nautilus, Windows Explorer,
and (not 100% sure on this one) OS X Finder.

I've only aided in debugging in the past, so this is the first new
functionality I would be adding to KDE, but I would be glad to
implement it on my own (at least, say, for the first draft), and then
provide the code for review.
However, I don't want to go to these lengths if it would somehow be
against the views of KDE as a whole. Unsure where to ask such
questions, I was pointed here, where I ask you the following:


Is there any reason for me not to implement context-sensitive drag 'n'
drop in the LibKonq library?


Many thanks,

Rob Davies