moved to Gnome 3 and can't drag and drop urls anymoe

pwalden · 01-03-2012, 03:24 PM

I upgraded my Fedoral 14 to 16 yesterday and I am working through the UI changes. The one that stymies me the most is that I can no longer figure out how to drag and drop a url from Firefox onto a custom launcher.

On F14, I had a custom launcher that wrapped get_flash_videos. I simply dragged a link to a video page to the launcher on the top panel and viola it launced a termnal with get_flash_videos downloading the video.

Now on F16 with Gnome 3 this all seems lost in for the sake of progress?

I can recreate my old launcher on the destop or in a Nautilis file manager window, but I can't get it to accept a drag-n-drop url from Firefox. The ability to add the launcher to the top panel seems to be gone.

Any pointers appreciated!

EDDY1 · 01-04-2012, 12:56 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...uncher-866105/

pwalden · 01-04-2012, 07:41 PM

The irony of your reply is that it is the thread I started back in F14 and referred to in my initial post.

Gnome 3 and F16 has broken all that.

I got the launcher to appear in the Activities/Applications list. I just added the desktop file below to ~/.local/share/applications

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=true
Icon=camera-video.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;
Exec=getvid %U
MimeType=text/x-uri;
Name=GetVideo 
GenericName=GetVideo
Comment=Invokes get_flash_videos.
Comment[en]=Invokes get_flash_videos.

However, I cannot figure out how to drag and drop an object onto it.

If I click on something (a link in FireFox) and drag it up to the Activities menu, I cannot access the Applications list without releasing the mouse button and losing the object I am dragging.

pwalden · 01-05-2012, 01:52 PM

Another data point, I have another F16 that uses Gnome 3 fallback mode. I can put the same desktop launcher on the top panel and drag-n-drop successfully.

Must be a Gnome 3 live feature?