32.1.2 CDE dt

CDE stands for Common Desktop Environment. It is based on the Motif widget library. It’s drag’n’drop protocol is also an abstraction of the Motif protocol (so it might be possible, that SXEmacs will also support the Motif protocol soon).

CDE has three different types: file, buffer, and text. SXEmacs only uses file and buffer drags. The API will disallow full URL drags, only file method URLs are passed through.

Buffer drags are always converted to plain text.