Improvements in DnD in G-Files Sidebar

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William Jon McCann pushed a while ago some nice patches in G-Files that allow us to drag and drop files to any folder in sidebar.

That commit closes bug #692097 and improves further the DnD and expected behavior in GNOME. Although there is more road ahead.

Allow drag and drop to any folder

Bug Report
Currently we allow the user to switch tabs when dragging a file but we shouldreally allow the user to drop into any location directly from a drag.

William belongs in GNOME Design Team, but he has said that a designer has also be a programmer and a programmer has also be a designer. So, he reported the bug, he wrote the patches and he also pushed them on Nautilus Git.

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GNOME Shell Screen Recorder is bugged in 3.6 (fixed in 3.8) and playback goes a bit faster, but I guess is quite obvious what these changes are about. +1 to G-Files for it!

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Bastian Hougaard

Nice! Look forward to try this myself. And yea, it’s really terrible that 3.6′s recorder is bugged. Really wish they would fix it on 3.6 branch too. I spent several hours editing the recordings of my workflow yesterday but had many many sync issues because of this. :/

alex285

I get the .webm and I re-encode it with VLC. That fixes the frame-duration, but the sample frequency is still slightly broken.

http://varemenos.com/ Adonis K. (Varemenos)

At the end of the video you showed us the feature where by dragging a folder in the sidebar we could preview whats inside it.
After getting the preview, would it be possible to drag the file inside a folder of the preview?

For example drag a txt file over the sidebar’s “Home” label and once the preview of Home is displayed to “unload” the currently draggable item inside a folder of Home (like: ~/downloads).

alex285

Yes, that was the point, sorry if I didn’t make it clear :(

Philip Witte

I hope this doesn’t get annoying when trying to drag files into the terminal..

alex285

Nop, because it has a small delay

Craig

Fawning is very unbecoming.