Add drag-and-drop functionality to app switcher (home screen)
asked 2014-06-11 13:15:44 +0200
It could be useful to be able to pass data from app to app via the home screen / app launcher.
API draft
- Each app can define a list, what type of data they will handle, so you could show interactively whether the data can be handled by target or not
- there could be externalDataReceived-signal for ApplicationWindow
Process of transaction
- A drag-and-drop transaction would begin from the app, by calling some special function when the data to be tranferred would be selected / dragged
- the app would be thrown to background and home screen with app covers be shown
- dropping the content on any of the covers / launcher would trigger that apps signal / start the app and trigger the signal
- under the hood there would be for example Dbus
why?
- This would be more intuitive to app developers who are not familiar with Dbus
- I think this would be intuitive to most of the users too, as most people are used to drag-and-dropping on their desktop machine
- One could take an image from the gallery and drop it to the email / cloudstorage / paint / etc. apps.
- This would reduce redundancy with each app having image / etc. choosers