Method acceptDrop

js/ui/workspaceThumbnail.js:877–936

(source, actor, x, y, time)

    }

    acceptDrop(source, actor, x, y, time) {
        if (this._dropWorkspace !== -1) {
            return this._thumbnails[this._dropWorkspace].acceptDropInternal(source, actor, time);
        } else if (this._dropPlaceholderPos !== -1) {
            if (!source.metaWindow &&
                (!source.app || !source.app.can_open_new_window()) &&
                (source.app || !source.shellWorkspaceLaunch))
                return false;

            const isWindow = !!source.metaWindow;

            let newWorkspaceIndex;
            [newWorkspaceIndex, this._dropPlaceholderPos] = [this._dropPlaceholderPos, -1];
            this._spliceIndex = newWorkspaceIndex;

            Main.wm.insertWorkspace(newWorkspaceIndex);

            if (isWindow) {
                // Move the window to our monitor first if necessary.
                const thumbMonitor = this._thumbnails[newWorkspaceIndex].monitorIndex;
                Main.moveWindowToMonitorAndWorkspace(source.metaWindow,
                    thumbMonitor, newWorkspaceIndex, true);
            } else if (source.app && source.app.can_open_new_window()) {
                if (source.animateLaunchAtPos)
                    source.animateLaunchAtPos(actor.x, actor.y);

                source.app.open_new_window(newWorkspaceIndex);
            } else if (!source.app && source.shellWorkspaceLaunch) {
                // While unused in our own drag sources, shellWorkspaceLaunch allows
                // extensions to define custom actions for their drag sources.
                source.shellWorkspaceLaunch({
                    workspace: newWorkspaceIndex,
                    timestamp: time,
                });
            }

            if (source.app || (!source.app && source.shellWorkspaceLaunch)) {
                // This new workspace will be automatically removed if the application fails
                // to open its first window within some time, as tracked by Shell.WindowTracker.
                // Here, we only add a very brief timeout to avoid the _immediate_ removal of the
                // workspace while we wait for the startup sequence to load.
                const workspaceManager = global.workspace_manager;
                Main.wm.keepWorkspaceAlive(workspaceManager.get_workspace_by_index(newWorkspaceIndex),
                    WORKSPACE_KEEP_ALIVE_TIME);
            }

            // Start the animation on the workspace (which is actually
            // an old one which just became empty)
            const thumbnail = this._thumbnails[newWorkspaceIndex];
            this._setThumbnailState(thumbnail, ThumbnailState.NEW);
            thumbnail.slide_position = 1;
            thumbnail.collapse_fraction = 1;

            this._queueUpdateStates();

            return true;
        } else {
            return false;