Comment 29 for bug 727903

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> Do we have a coherent strategy to address this bug? I.e. do we know how
> to do it? Reading the comments there's a lot of "defer" and "it's hard"
> but the ability to drag to any open window is critical.
>

Making any input including XDnD to a window in the spread requires either
patching toolkits or input redirection in the server. Either one of these
are large work items (eg, 1+ cycle to get it right along with other load),
so if we are to commit to it, we should only do it when writing the new
spread.

I've played around with input redirection in the X Server before,
and I know what it takes to make it work. If we do want to take this on, I
can circulate how its done.

Sam

> The importance is, appropriately, High.
>
> Mark
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> Title:
> Spread, Window Management - XDnD directly to a window in the spread
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