Comment 60 for bug 607796

@John Lea

I'm sorry to say that drag and drop from the Dash to another window is
currently NOT supported. It only works for files in Nautilus, as far as I
know. Dragging a file from the Dash to a browser to, for example, upload
photos to Google+ does not work.

2012/8/10 Rolandas Garla (Gmail) <email address hidden>

> @John Lea;
>
> I'm sorry John, I didn't mean to offend any of the contributors that
> dedicate their time. You're right, it's easy to stand aside and comment.
> My comments were out of frustration and aimed at management rather than to
> dedicated and hardworking contributors. What I was trying to say was that
> something is not working right at the higher level, i.e. what is the point
> of pushing release after release of only half-baked product. In my opinion
> it's counter productive. This bug and many others just demonstrate this.
> What I'm saying is not helpful, I agree. I'm not a developer but I have
> some experience in s/w development project management as part of my job.
> After spending a few years with ubuntu as a user, I regret to realise that
> it lacks direction and attitude that is so much needed, especially if you
> are to compete in the OS market.
>
> I'm sincerely sorry if I offended anyone, it wasn't my intention.
>
> Regards
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607796
>
> Title:
> Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should
> spread out windows belonging to that application
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
> Fix Committed
> Status in Compiz Core Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity:
> Triaged
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> If the user drags and hold a file over a running application in the
> Launcher, all the windows of that application should be shown with the
> spread. The user should then be able to drag and drop the file in a
> windows in the spread to load the file into that specific window.
>
> Bug #727903 needs to be fixed at the same time.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> History:
>
> This bug had been previously fixed as "buggybutclosed" for Unity on
> 2011-04-18, leaving this function with other bugs:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727903
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727904
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727902
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/764424
>
> On 2011-10-18, it was reopened for regression in Oneiric.
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