Advanced features
Drag'N'Drop
Worker supports drag'n'drop (DND) by implementing the XDND protocol which is compatible with pretty much all current environments, such as GNOME, KDE, or in general GTK or QT applications. However, since Worker's selection scheme is a little bit different to desktop file manager, the DND in Worker behaves a little bit unusual too.
To start the DND select the entry and hold down the left mousebutton just as in normal DND systems. The drag is started by pressing the right mouse button (while still holding the left mouse button). You can now move the entry to the final destination and release the left mouse button but you can also abort the drag'n'drop operation by pressing the Escape key.
The actual action executed when dropping the entry depends on the file type of the entry. Don't expect that the entry is copied to the destination directory. Directories for example are viewed if they are dropped at a list view, archives will be extracted. Each file type has an own configuration section about drag'n'drop actions.
Besides the unusual activation there are some additional limitations:
- Drag'n'Drop started within Worker currently only works with a single entry.
- Dropping files from outside of Worker (like from desktop file managers) will not automatically copy those files. Instead, a new tab is opened with all local files shown in a virtual directory. You can then decide to copy them as usual.
- Configurable actions based on the file type only work for DND inside Worker.
Copy & Paste
Files (and directories) can also be transferred to/from external programs via the clipboard. According to the standard freedeskop clipboard specifications, this happens via exchanging the file names and letting the receiver doing the actual transfer operation.This means, that copying or cutting files into the clipboard puts the file names there, and files are copied by the paste program. Also the paste program will delete the original files when a 'cut' is requested.
In Worker, copy and paste is done via registered commands of the source/target list view.
The command "copy_files_to_clipboard" will put all selected files into the clipboard. An optional argument 'cut' will initiate a cut operation. In the default config, this is bound to Shift-Ctrl-x/c (for cut and copy, respectively).
When pasting files from the clipboard via "paste_files_from_clipboard", a dialog appears which asks to whether copy the files into the current directory, or to create a virtual directory with those entries for further processing. In the default config, this is bound to Shift-Ctrl-v.
The context menu also contains entries for cut/copy/paste.
Virtual File Systems and Virtual Directories
Worker supports a virtual file system to access archives, and virtual directories to combine files from different locations into one virtual directory.
More features
Information about other features can be found in the corresponding features section.