Comment 24 for bug 873167

the disabling of the unity launcher when it "detects" an unsupported data type is just not usable in practise, theoretically it may be useful but bossing users around is not what a good interface should actually do! In my usecase, "drag and drop a selecteed text content to another program" fails so badly because none of the launchers light up or actually bring out the windows, i used meta+tab to select apps from the launcher but thats just useless when you have more windows per application(how am I really going to raise the window that I want to use up?), this would be so much easier if you didn't have this disabling effect on the unity launcher any way and displayed a window list on hovering(i know this can't be done in a tab and that unity is targeted for tabs, but we are not using Ubuntu on tablets! they are normal computers with mice/touchpads!) Let hovering be optional and make a default settings pacakge for tablets and desktops, back to kubuntu for me I guess hmm