i will not reinvent the wheel here: read this for an overview of what this is about: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/09/yes-dragon-drop-its-a-pun/Dragand drop should work properly
This problem has been around for since when i first used linux and to my surprise the lack of USB2.0 drivers was a bigger problem than DnD issues... but not that much bigger as we will see... How will we get this out of the way? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:07, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nn...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Owais ;) > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 19:11, Owais Lone <loneow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know this is off-topic but improving drag-n-drop caught my eye. >> Currently the windows get focus upon dragging. This makes it difficult to >> drag and drop in some situations. (Check the video.) > > > This problem is about to celebrate it's zillionth anniversary soon. > It turned me into an alcoholic for a while, as you can see from my lack of > discipline in this Ubuntu Brainstorm here: > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3490/ > > The problem's origin is upstream, see: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76672 > That was 2002.. :P omg sweet jeezus > > If you read the description of this bug, you will read: > > *"by definition, 'click' is 'press and release', so metacity's behaviour >> is out of order."* >> > > As you can see this bug is ancient and major. Fixing this by making > Metacity *focus on release* would make a great improvement. > > Thanks for bringing this one up again, i started missing it already ;) > > Nnaji >
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