[Bug]: Dragging and dropping a file into RV works very inconsistently

[chadrik]

What happened?

I was a bit torn on where to report this issue, because it has existed in RV for many years (going back to at least RV 7), but it seems to have gotten much worse in OpenRV to the point where it's fairly unusable for our artists. This is a fundamental feature that our users rely on for their day-to-day workflows.

I'm generally seeing the same behavior between 2021, 2022 and Open RV which is: Quickly dragging a file from Dolphin (linux file browser) into the RV window often fails to bring up the drop target overlay. Hovering on the window makes no difference and still doesn't bring up the overlay. Dragging into the window slowly increases the chance of bringing up the overlay and that subsequent dropping then succeeds.

RV 7 can fail to accept the drop but only if you drag and drop the file very fast. The main difference seems to be that in RV 7 no matter what speed you drag into the window, if you just hover on the window, it brings up the drop target overlay, whereas RV 2021+ does not recover even when hovering. So it seems possible that somewhere between RV 7 and 2021, a hover event has been broken or removed which was previously showing the drop target. OpenRV seems to be more temperamental than 2021 and 2022... sometimes you end up only being able to drop right near the edge of the window where it activates the overlay as the overlay disappears once you move further into the window .

List all the operating systems versions where this is happening

CentOS 7.8

On what computer hardware is this happening?

Multiple configurations

Relevant console log output

none

Environment variables

No response

Extra information

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[compaga]

Hi @chadrik , thank you for reporting this issue. We will see if this can be prioritize.

[savoiei]

Hi @chadrik , I was wondering in which desktop environment you are running your CentOS box? I have been switching between different ones in the past days, and it seems for me that while I don't see the issue that often in Gnome, it looks like the issue you are describing happens more often when working in MATE.

[chadrik]

Hi Ian, We are using KDE.

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Hi @chadrik https://github.com/chadrik , I was wondering in which desktop environment you are running your CentOS box? I have been switching between different ones in the past days, and it seems for me that while I don't see the issue that often in Gnome, it looks like the issue you are describing happens more often when working in MATE.

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