Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: XDND Drag-And-Drop protocol version 3
Keywords: drag-and-drop, dnd, interoperability, X

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: XDND Drag-And-Drop protocol version 3
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Keywords: drag-and-drop, dnd, interoperability, X

Version 3 of the XDND Drag-And-Drop protocol is finally finished.  The
major new feature is the ability to specify arbitrary actions independently
of the data types.  This should allow XDND to be used as the underlying
protocol for JavaBeans on X.  The protocol is described at

    http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/

This protocol is supported by JX and Qt, and will soon be supported by GTK+,
so programs written for Gnome, programs written for KDE, and programs like
Code Crusader and Arrow will all be able to work together on the same
desktop.

The related file dragging protocol described at

    http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/dragging_files.html

will allow compliant programs to accept drops from both the Gnome and KDE
file managers.

The full (and growing) list of supporters is at

    http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/supporters.html

John Lindal