Comment 56 for bug 607796
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| John Lea (johnlea) wrote Re: Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should spread out windows belonging to that application | #56 |
@stephane-guillou; this bug is not a regression as this functionality never worked correctly!
Note that the following drag and drop options all work in Unity today:
- dragging and dropping a file onto a Launcher icon
- dragging and dropping a file from the Dash to a window
- dragging and dropping a file from window to window
- dragging and dropping a app icon from the Dash to the Launcher
This bug is about having the option to drop onto a specific window that is not currently visible via the Launcher. The change request detailed in this bug is for when a icon is dragged over a Launcher icon for all the windows of that application to spread, and the allow the user to drop the icon into one of the windows.
Adding this improvement requires diving quite deep into X and Compiz, and currently most of the Compiz contributors are focusing on speed and stability improvements, which is also very important.
I would love to see this bug resolved, but given the workload and roadmap of our current Compiz contributors this bug will probably not get resolved in the near future unless someone who is not currently contributing to Compiz steps up to tackle this problem.
So if anyone is up for a challenge (fixing this bug will be non-trivial) and would like to try their hand at X and Compiz, ping me on Freenode #ubuntu-desktop and I'll put you in touch with the relevant people who can help and advise.