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mozilla-thunderbird package

  1. Bug #95507
  2. Comment #82

Comment 82 for bug 95507

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In , Karlt (karlt) wrote :

Just a record of my investigation into XDS:

I looked at the possibility of using the Direct Save Protocol (http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xds/) as an alternative (more similar to MS behavior) because a blog (http://rodney.id.au/dev/gnome/an-xds-example) said that it was "supported by ROX, Thunar, Konqueror, and Nautilus file managers".

However, I can't see how GTK apps could easily implement this protocol because
GDK doesn't support XdndActionDirectSave. Apparently that action was added
(October 26, 2000) but I don't know why it's needed. Further, even if this
action could be provided, it would be difficult for destinations not
supporting XDS to know how to fall back to text/uri-list given the
unrecognized action.