blobdrop 2.1

New features

• Add a new immediate drag frontend, that can drag directly from the terminal - no need to spawn an intermediate unnecessary GUI or to hold a mouse button. Just click on the drop location once and done!
• blobdrop will now heuristically attempt to temporarily hide the parent terminal window (and itself) during drag operations. This will improve the UX for floating WM users, where the terminal will likely be in front of other applications where the user probably wants to drop files into. No need to Alt+Tab anymore!
• blobdrop will now properly quit on ESC, regardless of the terminal emulator being focused or the blobdrop GUI
• The man page now has extensive documentation for all options
• Lots of other minor bug fixes and UX improvements

demo.mp4

Breaking changes

• The immediate frontend is now the default frontend (on supported platforms)
• The --auto-quit option now expects string arguments, not magic numbers
• The --immediate, --notification and --link options have been replaced with a new unified --frontend option that can choose between all frontends

Verschlimmbesserungs

• Add support for Windows

Installation

Attached are an AppImage (requires at least glibc 2.31) and a pre-compiled Arch Linux package. blobdrop is also available as an AUR package and as a Nix flake from this repository.

blobdrop 2.0

I am proud to announce blobdrop version 2.0 with a completely new design, support for thumbnails, two brand new frontend options, support for shell completions and many more improvements.

New features

• Automatic dark mode
• More modern UI
• Show thumbnails for images
• Show mimetype icons
• Autohide the window:

demo.mp4

• Implement new notification drag frontend for KDE Plasma:

demo.mp4

• Implement new OSC8 hyperlink frontend (but currently no terminal emulator supports drag-and-drop for OSC8)
• Allow to open files for preview
• Add shell completions for bash, zsh and fish
• Add a Nix flake
• Many more improvements, options and bug fixes

Downloads

Blobdrop can be installed in multiple different ways: A general AppImage and a precompiled Arch Linux package are provided below.
Alternatively on Arch Linux, install the blobdrop-git AUR package or on NixOS use the Nix flake from this repository.

blobdrop 1.0

We are pretty much feature-complete with dragon now, thus a stable release is warranted.

We offer some extra features over dragon though, such as being able to read from stdin asynchronously and quitting automatically once all items have been dragged at least once.