mobile09/16/10 11:58 - 55.ºF - ID#52757
Drag and Drop Test
OK, this is what I figured out. In the gnome Linux Mint 9, drag and drop does NOT work from the Desktop or if the file manager and firefox windows do not overlap.
But it does work if the file manager and the firefox winows DO overlap.
None of this works on a heavily-patched PCLinuxOS 2007 box with KDE 3.5.9 and Firefox 3.6.9. Because the PCLinuxOS is rather old and very far away from a vanilla install, I reckoned I should try something more modern like Linux Mint.
(e:leetee) suggested that the problem might be that the drag and drop won't be supported from the Desktop so I tried drag and drop from the File Manager on both boxes. Linux Mint worked if the windows overlapped. But, alas, the ancient PCLinuxOS box was just too old and cranky and refused to work. Thank you for all your efforts, (e:paul). I think the mystery is solved. There is no more reason for you to do anything about this. It's a combination of user error and old software.
But it does work if the file manager and the firefox winows DO overlap.
None of this works on a heavily-patched PCLinuxOS 2007 box with KDE 3.5.9 and Firefox 3.6.9. Because the PCLinuxOS is rather old and very far away from a vanilla install, I reckoned I should try something more modern like Linux Mint.
(e:leetee) suggested that the problem might be that the drag and drop won't be supported from the Desktop so I tried drag and drop from the File Manager on both boxes. Linux Mint worked if the windows overlapped. But, alas, the ancient PCLinuxOS box was just too old and cranky and refused to work. Thank you for all your efforts, (e:paul). I think the mystery is solved. There is no more reason for you to do anything about this. It's a combination of user error and old software.
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When I started out with Linux, I was a KDE gui man despite liking lots of Gnome suite apps. These days I have to say that I like the newer Gnome better than the KDE 4+ desktops. But, ironically enough, I tend to prefer KDE suite apps. Go figure.
I love E17 (Enlightenment DR17). I'm sad to say that right I don't have a box that is running E17 because I've been compiling it from source lately and I just don't have time and energy to deal with that.
Any old way, again thank you for the kind words. As you can see, I can ramble on about Linux. I'm a bit of an absent-minded professor. My train of thought often makes unscheduled stops.
These days gnome and kde apps play well with each other. And I've not had any problems using Gnome apps in KDE and visa-versa since 2001 or 20002.
In general terms, in Linux, you can use any Gnome or KDE app with any desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, lxde, xfce, etc), desktop shell (Enlightenment DR17 (my personal fave), etc.), or windows manager (Window Maker, fluxbox, etc.) as long as you have access to the supporting toolkit libraries. And these days, most distros have pre-compiled library binaries available. Of course, if you are geeky, you could just compile stuff even if your favie distro doesn't have libraries for ready download.
I hope that answered your question and didn't confuse you more.
Because it is an implementation of a kernel with user space api's, anyone and everyone can make their own Linux and developers aren't limited by what the other developers are doing. While both Fedora and Ubuntu are operating systems using the Linux kernel, they aren't "Linux" in the same way that MS Windows is Windows and osX is osX. A better way to look at it is that Fedora is Fedora and Ubuntu is Ubuntu, etc. But,of course, you already knew that.
On an enterprise level, the lack of standards can cause problems. That's why the Linux Standard Base :::link::: was started.
When I first used Linux in another century, cut and paste was a real problem. Even if your distro could run gnome and kde apps, you couldn't always cut and paste between them. If memory serves it was because of qt and gtk not playing together well.