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8903 :: dnd - bi-directional drag and drop source/target

• adokitkat (orginal) [2022-02-12T13:55:05+01:00] view original

  dnd

  

  Hi! I was working on this project over a few weekends and I think it's finally ready. Maybe some of you can make an use of it. Please leave a feedback - issues, suggestions, etc. :)

  About

  dnd is a bi-directional drag and drop source/target inspired by dragon.c written in Nim and gintro (GTK).

  I think it's useful when you normally just use a terminal and need to drag and drop something e.g. into a web browser. You don't need to open a file manager, just run dnd * which shows a window with drag and drop source list of all of files in a current directory you're in and simply drag it from there.

  Here is a video explaining dragon if you don't know what I am talking about.

  Key differences with dragon

  • is bi-directional (in dragon the source mode is default, the target mode is available via dragon -t flag, you cannot use both at the same time) - just run dnd and a window with a target area appears, run dnd file1.txt file2.html and a windows with two file drag sources and one target drop area
  • has dnd.cfg config file where you can store presets - is the config file is found, Default preset is loaded, you can load a different one via dnd -p=Alt where Alt is a name of a different preset - you don't have to run dnd every time with the same flags like dnd -k -c -t:false -o:0.9, just set it in your dnd.cfg file as a default preset and run dnd
  • automatically reads input from stdin as a source when text is piped into it, e.g. find . -name "*.txt" | dnd, you can also use program arguments at the same time too find . -name "*.txt" | dnd file2.html and displays all of it (in dragon you have to run it with additional flag dragon -I)
  • aesthetic options - a resizable window, you can set window dimensions, opacity, set if dnd window is decorated by a window manager, open dnd window in the center of you screen, open dnd window where your mouse cursor currently is, etc.
  • maybe I forgot something :)

  More info at: https://github.com/adokitkat/dnd

  Acknowledgments

  I want to thank Dr. @Stefan_Salewski for help with gintro and Michael Homer (mhw) for the original program and inspiration.

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• adokitkat (orginal) [2022-02-12T13:56:52+01:00] view original

  I also have a question - is there a way to use before/after hooks in .nimble file for nimble uninstall? I tried but it doesn't work.

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• SolitudeSF (orginal) [2022-02-12T14:36:38+01:00] view original

  great program. but please, dont depend on #HEAD, gintro is regularely tagged, or at least depend on certain commit. also, installing other files from nimble install is a bad move, just add nimble task for doing that.

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• adokitkat (orginal) [2022-02-12T15:01:06+01:00] view original

  Thanks :)

  I had to because I have found a bug in gintro and it has been fixed in #HEAD only IFAIK? I can make it dependent on commit tho.

  What do you mean by adding a nimble task? I wanted to mimic make install which also installs a desktop entry (for an icon).

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