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Fix Drag and Drop with Gtk3

Sundeep Mediratta requested to merge smedius/desktop-icons-ng:copied-files-retain-position into master

This is a backport of Drag and Drop from Gtk4 branch to the current Gtk3 branch. Fixes the following-

  • Drag Cursor correctly reflects the operation being performed - Copy, Move or Ask

  • Shift, control and alt keys work correctly to change the drag operation to Copy, Move or Ask

  • Works correctly also on dropping on folders on the desktop

New Features

  • Ask - Ask the user what to do - Copy, Move or Make Links

  • Ability to make Links on the Desktop or on the dropped folder on desktop

  • Links retain the position on the desktop where dropped

  • Copied files get the exact dropped position on the desktop.

  • Pasted files get the exact dropped position on the desktop.

This works perfectly in Wayland. Drag and Drop behaves differently under X and therefore some changes made to accommodate drag and drop under X

Fixes so that links make into folders on Desktop don't overwrite with duplicate filenames.

Edited by Sundeep Mediratta

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