Re: Drag and drop patch for X, please review.

[Miles Bader]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
> The DND-TYPE is not unique.  That is, when I drop a file from say the
> Gnome file manager, I have several types to choose from, for example,
> text/uri-list, text/plain, UTF8_STRING, and some more.  If a user is
> going to be able to make an intelligent choice, I'd assume he wants to
> look at all acceptable types as a group.

Well why not do so then?  I.e., pass a list of all the acceptable types
as a list to the TEST-FUN.

> Also, there are several types out there that a user can add to the
> alist that the current suggestion just ignores (say application/xml or
> just about any unknown type).  How do we determine which of these are
> more specific?

If it's hard for the calling code to order the possible types, you could
use a simple ordered list instead of an alist, e.g., with entries like
(TEST-FUN . DROP-FUN), TEST-FUN being called with a _list_ of the
available types (+ other info), and the first test returning non-nil
causing the corresponding DROP-FUN to be called.

As a convenience, you could also allow TEST-FUN to be a string, and
consider it to match if the list of types contains it (or whatever).

-Miles
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