[PATCH wayland 2/2] protocol: Add DnD actions

[Michal Suchanek]

On 24 December 2015 at 01:58, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg at gnome.org> wrote:

> @@ -757,6 +883,40 @@
>        <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="wl_data_device"/>
>        <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"/>
>      </request>
> +
> +    <!-- Version 3 additions -->
> +
> +    <enum name="dnd_action" bitfield="true" since="3">
> +      <description summary="drag and drop actions">
> +        This is a bitmask of the available/preferred actions in a
> +        drag-and-drop operation.
> +
> +        In the compositor, the selected action comes out as a result of
> +        matching the actions offered by the source and destination sides.
> +        "action" events with a "none" action will be sent to both source
> +        and destination if there is no match. All further checks will
> +        effectively happen on (source actions ∩ destination actions).
> +
> +        In addition, compositors may also pick different actions in
> +        reaction to key modifiers being pressed, one common ground that
> +        has been present in major toolkits (and the behavior recommended
> +        for compositors) is:
> +
> +        - If no modifiers are pressed, the first match (in bit order)
> +          will be used.
> +        - Pressing Shift selects "move", if enabled in the mask.
> +        - Pressing Control selects "copy", if enabled in the mask.
> +
> +        Behavior beyond that is considered implementation-dependent.
> +        Compositors may for example bind other modifiers (like Alt/Meta)
> +        or drags initiated with other buttons than BTN_LEFT to specific
> +        actions (e.g. "ask").
> +      </description>
> +      <entry name="none" value="0"/>
> +      <entry name="copy" value="1"/>
> +      <entry name="move" value="2"/>
> +      <entry name="ask" value="4"/>
> +    </enum>
>    </interface>
>

Hello,

how do you go about implementing those implementation-specific actions?

Let's say I have a client which id DnD source in an operation and
wants to paste text without formatting when ALT is pressed. It can
technically change the offered mime-types or perform a different
object conversion when sending the data if it learns the key is down.
Will it learn about the key state?

Another example would be a client that is DnD destination and wants to
paste only text style when the user holds the 10th mouse button or 5th
touchscreen softbutton when the object is dropped. Will it get to know
that the event happened? It will probably want to reject move action
in this case since the object is not fully transferred. There is no
mime type for text style there is no way to transfer it other than
transferring whole formatted text clip and then trashing the text (and
it's going to be hairy if the text is not formatted uniformly).

Thanks

Michal