Drag/drop from workspace to app icon

[Adrian Robert]

Hi,

I was experimenting with dragging files from GWorkspace to the 
application icons of various apps.  From what I observed with Emacs, 
this does not cause drag/drop machinery to be activated in the active 
View, but instead results in a -application:openFile: (or maybe an 
-openFile:onHost:atTrueLine:) message being sent to the NSApp (I assume 
resulting from processing of the drag somewhere else in GUI).  This 
makes sense, although it does not appear to work the same way on OS X, 
which I'm looking into.

The problem is though (on GNUstep), the message only seems to be sent 
if the app icon is in the lower left of the screen.  This applies to 
other apps like TextEdit too.  Put the icon in the lower left, and a 
green 'draggable' icon appears when dragging, and it gets the file.  
Move it away, and a black 'no' icon appears instead, and no file open 
message is received.  Has anyone else experienced this?  I'm using 
WindowMaker, is it to blame?  My GWorkspace is CVS from about a month 
ago.

thanks