<AWT Dev> 4899516: Transferable has no DataFlavors when dragging from Gnome window to Swing

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi

>From what I can tell, Java has superb support for the XDND protocol,
yet it has zero support for the X file drag specification
(http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/dragging_files.html) which is
part of that protocol. This means file drops to Java apps do not work
as expected on any freedesktop environment (at least Gnome, very
likely KDE and XFCE as well).

I've already written an X file drag implementation for wine
(http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2007-June/033705.html) and I
think it's about time Java started working too.

If nobody has any objections and nobody is already working on it, I'd
like to have a go at fixing this.

Since text/uri-list is more general than a file list, would the right
approach be dropping non-file URIs?

Thank you
Damjan Jovanovic