I have also noticed that this does not only happen when dragging and dropping among and within Nautilus windows and/or the Desktop, but also when dragging a file to an application capable of handling it, such as dropping a file into Filezilla (on the server-side panel, i.e. the right one) for upload. In that case, also, at random times the operation is silently ignored.
I would say it does appear to be more likely to happen when the drag-n-drop is done quickly, but it's difficult to say, because most of the times I do it quickly, unless I am re-doing it just after a failure. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1029371 Title: drag&drop of files randomly silently fails Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm not sure whether this is Nautilus or Unity at fault. This happens with both a Nautilus window and the Desktop: 1. In a Nautilus window: click on a file icon, drag it and drop it over a folder. Or hold the Ctrl key and click and drag and drop the file immediately in almost the same place where it was. In the first case (dragging over a folder) the file should be moved; in the second case the file should be copied. In both cases, if you do it quickly enough, the action is completely ignored and nothing happens. It seems to be related to the fact that the Launcher (or whatever it is called) shows up on the left of the screen when you start dragging. If its show-up animation is not complete when you drop the item, the drag&drop operation is ignored. 2. On the desktop, the same happens. Or if you simply move an icon (in which case the expected behavior would be for the icon to snap to the nearest position in the grid and stay there) you can also observe that the action is ignored and the icon goes back to its original position. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: unity 5.14.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] Date: Thu Jul 26 12:44:14 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (69 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1029371/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
