For those of you who don’t frequent kfm-devel, I’ve posted a patch against KHTML to the mailing list to show the image you’re dragging during a drag and drop operation.
Sample
It’ll probably be a KDE 4 thing unless the KHTML devs really love it, since we’re past feature freeze. I think it’s pretty nifty myself, and it wasn’t hard to do at all. I just wish that QCursor::setCursor() took full advantage of the Xcursor spec to allow translucent pixmaps to be properly supported. Although perhaps it is an X Server limitation that causes this.
One other thing is that this only works for images that aren’t also links. It wouldn’t be hard to do something with hyperlinked images as well, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Also, you’d probably want to be dragging the actual URL, and not the image anyways.