Dragging a file in the panel can only raise selected app

[Lysios]

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When a file is dragged on the panel, only its associated application can be raised and used with while the others are desaturated and useless.
This is too much restrictive. The desaturated effect is very useful but should not prevent applications to be interactive.

For instance, if I drag a picture on the panel, I can only open it with some graphical applications while one would want to insert it in a libreoffice document or in a terminal or move it to home folder.
This is particularly relevant when the desired application is minimized or on another desktop.

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[Lysios (lysios)]

Well, after some chats and more tryings, the bug is not what i described but i couldn't find where to edit its title.

So here is the real bug:
When an application is minimized by clicking on the top left button, we can drag a file on the launcher icon and raise the application. So far so good.
BUT, when the application is minimized by the "show desktop" option (super+d or any other shortcut), this is not working.
Here is the bug ;)

[Harry van Haaren (harryhaaren)]

Can't reproduce this here, <super-d> gets grabbed by the launcher and pops it out. Also can you post what version of unity you've got? Incomplete for now

[Lysios (lysios)]

My version is: 3.8.16-0ubuntu1~natty1 (unity)

I just retried but it still doesn't work for me: dragging a file on the icon of a <super-d> minimised window does nothing.

[Lysios (lysios)]

Actually, when <super-d> is used, it works if you only want to drag and drop your file on the launcher icon.
But if you want to drag your file on the launcher icon and wait for the app to pop up, it does not work with <super-d> while working with the minimising button.

I tried this with firefox, eog, banshee, gedit and libroffice.

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