How to handle drag-and-drop to the desktop in Plasma 5?

[Bhushan Shah]

Hello,

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In Plasma 5 this does not work anymore, as kde-base repo has not been
>> ported. But I see that drag-and-dropping files from Dolphin to the desktop
>> works, so: where is Ark supposed to "register" this dbus method, in Plasma
>> 5?
>
> Hi,
> folderview is now in the plasma-desktop repository, in
> plasma-desktop/applets/folder
> It has been completely rewritten so something may have been lost in translation.
> What was it doing exactly? was it folderview invoking a dbus method
> explicitly on Ark?

plasma-desktop still have code specific to ark

plasma-desktop/containments/desktop/plugins/folder/foldermodel.cpp
L744 and ahead..

Also if I remember correctly, this used to work in initial plasma release..

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