Things like this actually works in KDE, I can take a file from the file manager and drop it into konsole and it will copy the path. It's how copy/paste intents

Things like this actually works in KDE, I can take a file from the file manager and drop it into konsole and it will copy the path. It's how copy/paste intents are supposed to work, the receiving object or program might want to use the object sent in various ways so you can extract image data or path if it's an image for instance. Konsole just grabs the path from all that is sent to it that is not clear text. I did try your text file example from kate (text editor), but that didn't work. otoh, kate does provide the path to the file for easy copying right below this icon :) I can drag the file from kate, however konsole doesn't accept the object. I suspect kate doesn't encode the path in the copy/paste object, perhaps something I should fix.