Just for the curious, and those google searchers out there, I got things worked out. 

(trusty)westmj@localhost:~/GoogleDrive/perl$ cat hello_world.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, World!\n\@ARGV:\n";
foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
    print "$arg\n";
}
warn "Press 'Enter' or 'Return' to finish.\n";
<STDIN>
(trusty)westmj@localhost:~/GoogleDrive/perl$ perl hello_world.pl 1 2
Hello, World!
@ARGV:
1
2
Press 'Enter' or 'Return' to finish.

(trusty)westmj@localhost:~/GoogleDrive/perl$ cat hello_world_desktop.d
+esktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Hello_World_desktop
Comment=Execute by dropping file onto
Exec=/usr/bin/perl /home/westmj/GoogleDrive/perl/hello_world.pl '%F'
#Icon=/home/alex/Pictures/icon.png
Terminal=true
Type=Application
#Categories=Application
MimeType=application/vnd.ms-excel;application/vnd.openxmlformats-offic
+edocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;inode/directory;text/plain;text/x-scrip
+t.perl;

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Dragging two perl files onto the .desktop file works, the output in a new terminal is: 

Hello, World!
@ARGV:
/home/westmj/GoogleDrive/perl/modify.pl
/home/westmj/GoogleDrive/perl/Open_with_NotePad-attenders.pl
Press 'Enter' or 'Return' to finish.

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In reply to Re: Ubuntu: drag files/folders onto perl script and get their names in @ARGV by westmj
in thread Ubuntu: drag files/folders onto perl script and get their names in @ARGV by westmj

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