Ability to drag files out of the Terminal onto the Desktop or into other Applications

[mirwor]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When doing a ls in a directory it would be great to be able to drag the listed files out of the Terminal into other Applications or to copy files by dragging them with the mouse where you want them to be. For example when i list Music Files in my terminal I want to be able to drag them out of the terminal into my music-player and it just starts playing.

[Máté Őry (orymate)]

IMO, this shouldn't be a terminal feature but GUI should give as wide abilities of filtering as shells do.

[- (a--deactivatedaccount)]

Does the original poster mean the gnome-terminal or is he/she referring to the Nautilus window?

[Steffen Mödinger (stmoed)]

I am referring to the gnome-terminal window, so when I type "ls" and
get a list of files I should be able to do actions on these files,
like dragging them out of the terminal window, just like you would in
nautilus only you are clicking on the written name of the file in the
terminal.

On 7/5/07, Derry <email address hidden> wrote:
> Does the original poster mean the gnome-terminal or is he/she referring
> to the Nautilus window?
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> Ability to drag files out of the Terminal onto the Desktop or into other Applications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124251
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[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

Thanks for your report. Your idea might get more attention and have the possibility of being implemented if you submit a specification for it. First check whether the idea is already registered [WWW] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+specs, and if so, contact the specification's drafter about your ideas. Otherwise, you can start writing a spec yourself. [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications

FWIW, this really isn't within the scope of what a normal terminal application would do. However, I believe there are already some experimental terminals that deal with interesting UI ideas (not sure drag-and-drop are among them). See CUIterm, for instance, at http://linux.pte.hu/~pipas/CUI/ ; I'd bet you'd have somewhat better luck convincing them to add the feature you're talking about

Note that, in order to do the sort of thing you're talking about, you generally would need to both change the terminal, and use a customized shell for that terminal.

Also, for future reference, the bug tracker's not really the appropriate place to submit feature requests, except for very trivial ones: it's for actual bugs only in general. Otherwise, feature requests are really what https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+specs is for. Good luck!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Micah, thank you for your bug triage work. Suggesting to register a specification for a simple feature request is not a good idea though. The specifications are for work that need planification over a cycle, not for every wishlist

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've sent the request on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454255

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

Sebastien, I don't find this a remotely "simple" feature request. Implementing this would take a very significant amount of planning, IMO.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the 'simple' was not about the complexity of the request, that's an upstream wishlist though and doesn't need coordination over a cycle