Drag&Drop images from a DAM like PhotoMechanic+, digikam (or others) to C1

When using a Digital Asset Management (DAM) or photo library of any kind for my raw files (and image exports), I often search for specific images in the DAM and want to open and edit the images from the search result in C1.

Because I can select images in the DAM search result, I could easily drag&drop them to C1 so that they are listed there e.g. in a new album. Once edited in C1, I could export them and be happy.

Specifically, I work with C1 sessions for image editing. If a simple drag&drop action (more precise: the drop event in C1 to an album) would put them in that album, they would load the existing adjustments from the respective .cos files and allow me working on their current state, or export them right away without additional edits, whatever suits me.

This all would work already, the only part to implement is to add the images in the album when a drop event is triggered.

Dragging from the Windows Explorer is already supported by Windows applications (and many Windows DAMs), the missing part is that Dropping onto C1 can work (which is a standard event in Windows).

All DAM applications supporting Drag (with a list of image file locations) would then work with C1.

Btw, that worked until C1 version 15.2 for Windows, flawlessly, and since the introduction of individual variants in albums it stopped working, assumingly the implementation broke the drop functionality.

Bring this function back, then a highly capable DAM or photo library which can handle image catalogs better than C1 (there are a few :-)) or those which can deal with huge image catalogs could work with a C1 session as the image editor.