diff -urB fsexam-0.8.1.orig/configure.in fsexam-0.8.1.hacked/configure.in
--- fsexam-0.8.1.orig/configure.in	2010-04-23 14:41:32.385944606 +0100
+++ fsexam-0.8.1.hacked/configure.in	2010-04-23 14:54:34.931729119 +0100
@@ -65,8 +65,7 @@
         [gnome-desktop-2.0 >= 2.0 \
         libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.0     \
         libglade-2.0 >= 2.0       \
-        gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >= 2.0 \
-        eel-2.0 >= 2.2.3])
+        gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >= 2.0]) 
 
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DUMMY, 
         [glib-2.0 >= 2.8], 
diff -urB fsexam-0.8.1.orig/src/fsexam-dnd.c fsexam-0.8.1.hacked/src/fsexam-dnd.c
--- fsexam-0.8.1.orig/src/fsexam-dnd.c	2009-02-10 07:31:50.000000000 +0000
+++ fsexam-0.8.1.hacked/src/fsexam-dnd.c	2010-04-23 14:53:51.385616947 +0100
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@
 #include <libgnome/libgnome.h>
 #include <libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h>
 #include <libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs.h>
-#include <eel/eel-vfs-extensions.h>
-#include <eel/eel-string.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 #include "fsexam-header.h"
@@ -54,6 +52,41 @@
             {"x-special/gnome-icon-list", 0, FSEXAM_ICON_DND_GNOME_ICON_LIST}
 };
 
+static gboolean
+_uri_has_prefix (const char *haystack, const char *needle)
+{
+        const char *h, *n;
+        char hc, nc;
+
+        h = haystack == NULL ? "" : haystack;
+        n = needle == NULL ? "" : needle;
+        do {
+                if (*n == '\0') {
+                        return TRUE;
+                }
+                if (*h == '\0') {
+                        return FALSE;
+                }
+                hc = *h++;
+                nc = *n++;
+                hc = g_ascii_tolower (hc);
+                nc = g_ascii_tolower (nc);
+        } while (hc == nc);
+        return FALSE;
+}
+
+static gboolean 
+_uri_is_desktop (gchar *uri)
+{
+  return _uri_has_prefix (uri, "x-nautilus-desktop:");
+}
+
+static gboolean 
+_uri_is_trash (gchar *uri)
+{
+  return _uri_has_prefix (uri, "trash:");
+}
+
 static void
 drag_data_received_callback (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkDragContext *context,
@@ -93,8 +126,8 @@
     if (local_path) {
         fsexam_change_dir (local_path);
     } else {
-        if (eel_uri_is_desktop (canonical_uri) 
-                || eel_uri_is_trash (canonical_uri)) {
+        if (_uri_is_desktop (canonical_uri) 
+                || _uri_is_trash (canonical_uri)) {
             gchar *uri = NULL;
             p = strstr(canonical_uri, ":");
             if (p != NULL) {