when 2 instances of mousepad are running, you can't dnd text from one window to another. and you can't dnd selected text in a single instance either. i didn't know if this would be a bug or an enhancement, but i just saw on http://foo-projects.org/~benny/xfce/apps.html that mousepad supported drag and drop, so i filed this as a bug. btw, selected text should be moved by default, not copied when using dnd in a single instance and of course copied when dropping text in another instance.
DnD support in Mousepad is currently just for opening files. Drag a file from Thunar or Nautilus, for example, into a Mousepad window, it'll open up. That said, DnD text should work. I'll work on it for a post 4.4.0 release.
This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681159 1) Open Mousepad. 2) Type some text. 3) Use mouse to select a portion of the text. 4) Use mouse to drag the selected text to a different location in the text file, then release the mouse. 5) BUG: No change in text. BUG: No insertion point for where text should be cut+pasted to. ---- Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid Mousepad 0.2.16 Xfce4.6.1.3
I can't reproduce this bug using the 0.3.0 version. Even the bug on Ubuntu Launchpad has been marked as fixed.
Fixed in latest versions. Please re-open or create new bug if it's not.