Comment 3 for bug 388247

This duplicate status is wrong. The two bugs are similar but not the same. This actually is a longstanding bug in gnome:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112308
And cited on the gnome developer blog (near the bottom of the post):
http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/06/11/drag-and-drop/