Comment by staindk
4 years ago
Seeing no one complain about broken drag-and-drop functionality (in Gnome File Manager) in this thread has had me realise I must have a somewhat unique problem.
For the life of me I can't drag files out of File Manager into a program without a struggle.
This is an issue for drag-and-dropping e.g. images from FM -> Chrome (Jira stories / Gitlab comments / etc) or from FM -> Slack. Don't think I have tried much dragging into other programs.
What happens is either:
(~90%) nothing is dragged
(~7%) the file path is dragged and either causes an error or just pastes the path
(~3%) the actual file is dragged as expected
I've figured out some ways to improve the likelihood of the drag working - instead of just clicking and dragging the item, I first spin around in my chair twice, give a very specific exasperated sigh, and then use my arrow keys to select the file I want to drag and only then click and drag with my mouse. This works much more often - probably about 50% of the time.
Recently started always trying copy in FM -> paste in destination program and that generally works.
(I've had the issue for over a year, since the start of my OS install. Currently on latest Gnome (41? 42?) on Arch. Wayland. If someone sees this and has any ideas please let me know.)
From what I can see, Gnome users do not complain. They know what works and what doesn't, and deal with it.
Not seeing anybody complaining about some Gnome brokeness is perfectly normal.
You should give KDE a try, it's pretty frikkin good. The file manager defaults are a bit weird but it's OK.