New drag and drop API (#4571)

This commit implements a new API for drag and drop, with a `DataTransfer` type which abstracts over the various clipboard/drag and drop APIs across different platforms. I built this on top of #2429 although admittedly I ended up removing pretty much all of their work while I was reworking the design.

This is being built in order to help support [drag-and-drop work](https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/1967) in Slint's winit backend. As part of that work, I did extensive research on how drag-and-drop and clipboard APIs are implemented across different platforms, and wrote a (still WIP) research document that can be found [here](https://gist.github.com/eira-fransham/06750cf8d25ade08d362a0ca8dfafe06).

The new API is inspired by the browser's [`DataTransfer`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DataTransfer) API.
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Eira Fransham
2026-07-16 14:48:12 +02:00
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parent 066c091b56
commit 156433eb91
44 changed files with 5905 additions and 594 deletions

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@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ serde = ["dep:serde", "bitflags/serde", "smol_str/serde", "dpi/serde"]
bitflags.workspace = true
cursor-icon.workspace = true
dpi.workspace = true
percent-encoding.workspace = true
rwh_06.workspace = true
serde = { workspace = true, optional = true }
smol_str.workspace = true
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ sctk = { package = "smithay-client-toolkit", version = "0.20.0", default-feature
sctk-adwaita = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
wayland-backend = { version = "0.3.10", default-features = false, features = ["client_system"] }
wayland-client = "0.31.10"
wayland-protocols = { version = "0.32.11", features = ["staging", "unstable"] }
wayland-protocols = { version = "0.32.12", features = ["staging", "unstable"] }
wayland-protocols-plasma = { version = "0.3.8", features = ["client"] }
winit-common = { workspace = true, features = ["xkb", "wayland"] }