Comment 58 for bug 215499

It's an easy thing to say when the person you're saying it to can't refute it. The combination of behavior changes is an odd coincidence, though. It speaks of multiple points of failure which is less likely than a single point of failure. (I know, you don't think anything has failed but we who have come to depend on a particular behavior do.)

As far as the test of dragging and dropping from Firefox to Konqueror in Kubuntu, for example, it doesn't work as it does in Ubuntu with Nautilus. The nice behavior in Gnome/Firefox/Nautilus was that you could drag and image from a webpage in Firefox to a folder in Nautilus or the Gnome desktop and the drag would pull in the filename and timestamps along with the file. I'm using Ubuntu with both Nautilus and Konqueror (there are features under each that the other doesn't do that I like.) and under Gnome/Konqueror you have to stop and type in a filename for the dragged file.

To be fair, I'll install a pure Kubuntu machine and see what happens. If the behavior on Kubuntu has changed so that a drag and drop from Firefox to a folder acts as I expected on Gnome/Nautilus then I'll likely just switch from Ubuntu to Kubuntu.