Drag and Drop Files Out of GNOME Archiver
One last minute feature added to
GNOME 2.20 was XDS, the Direct
Save Protocol. XDS is a
framework for drag and drop functionality between applications. Previously
Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, lacked any drag and drop support beyond moving
files between Nautilus windows. With XDS, Nautilus can drag and drop with other
applications.
It has never been possible to drag files out of the GNOME archive manager to decompress them. To me, this seemed like a huge missing feature. It felt natural to drag files out of an archive, but it did not work. XDS means that it can work.
GNOME 2.20 with XDS will be included in Ubuntu 7.10, which will be released October 18th. I tried it out today in Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 6 and it worked just as expected.
Jake
It’s the little things like that in KDE that have made me stick with it. It’s nice to see GNOME is starting to get them as well.