Index: plugins/launcher/launcher.c
===================================================================
--- plugins/launcher/launcher.c	(Revision 26691)
+++ plugins/launcher/launcher.c	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -133,21 +133,38 @@
     gchar  **uri_list;
     GSList  *filenames = NULL;
     gchar   *filename;
+    gboolean is_uri = TRUE;
     guint    i;

     /* check whether the retrieval worked */
     if (G_LIKELY (selection_data->length > 0))
     {
-        /* split the received uri list */
-        uri_list = g_uri_list_extract_uris ((gchar *) selection_data->data);
+        if (g_str_equal(gdk_atom_name(selection_data->target), "text/uri-list"))
+        {
+			/* split the received uri list */
+			uri_list = g_uri_list_extract_uris ((gchar *) selection_data->data);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+        	/* split input by \n, \r or \r\n, this might result in empty elements, we sort
+        	 * them out below */
+        	uri_list = g_strsplit_set ((gchar *) selection_data->data, "\n\r", 0);
+        	is_uri = FALSE;
+        }

         if (G_LIKELY (uri_list))
         {
-            /* walk though the list */
+            /* walk through the list */
             for (i = 0; uri_list[i] != NULL; i++)
             {
+                if (! uri_list[i][0]) /* skip emtpy elements */
+                    continue;
+
                 /* convert the uri to a filename */
-                filename = g_filename_from_uri (uri_list[i], NULL, NULL);
+                if (is_uri)
+                    filename = g_filename_from_uri (uri_list[i], NULL, NULL);
+                else
+					filename = g_strdup (uri_list[i]);

                 /* prepend the filename */
                 if (G_LIKELY (filename))
Index: plugins/launcher/launcher.h
===================================================================
--- plugins/launcher/launcher.h	(Revision 26691)
+++ plugins/launcher/launcher.h	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@
 static const GtkTargetEntry drop_targets[] =
 {
     { "text/uri-list", 0, 0, },
+    { "STRING",	       0, 0 },
+    { "UTF8_STRING",   0, 0 },
+    { "text/plain",    0, 0 },
 };