Drag-and-drop file into executable

[Fred]

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

It is not possible to drag-and-drop a file into a executable.
This would be an useful feature.

In Microsoft Windows, it is possible to drag-and-drop a file into an executable and make the executable run with the filename as an command line argument kinda.

So if you drop photo.jpg into imageviewer.exe then imageviewer would startup showing photo.jpg by launching "imageviewer.exe photo.jpg"

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that's known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64357

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Thanks. But that post is 2001-11-12 12:08 UTC, its like 6 years old.

That post is half a decade old and they still haven't fixed it?

Someone needs to fix it, in Windows there have been that functionality forever, probably Mac too.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

May you post those comments upstream since they write the code? thanks.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

But I don't have an account on bugzilla.gnome.org :(

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Create one?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/createaccount.cgi

It's an acknowledged feature request, albeit overdue, so remember that saying "fix it" there probably won't accomplish anything either. There are probably technical issues blocking its implementation, or simply nobody has been interested in it; I'd suggest doing searches in the mailing list archives to find if it's been discussed, and finding people elsewhere who may be interested in working on it.