Dock: can't switch between apps to use drag-and-drop

[Alan Jenkins]

1. Select some text.
2. Click and drag (but don't drop!) it onto a dock icon of an open application.

This should let you switch to the open application, so you can drop the text into it. This is probably a regression (I know it's worked in various versions of Windows and KDE, but I've not been a heavy GNOME user).

<uncharitable snark>The Unity interface is supposed to be very well suited for laptop screens (while currently not being quite as well suited to desktops, and skipping the original netbooks). Anyway, it's certainly been tweaked to support maximized apps efficiently. It seems strange if it's dropping support for drag-and-drop between maximized windows using the mouse.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-2d 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 21 17:43:20 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[tsetso (vyrgozunqk)]

I've got exactly the same issue with unity, for example i type some code in a terminal, and open a file manager at the whole screen, then select a few files that i have to paste in to the terminal but there is no way to put the terminat on the fron. Nor when placing the mouse curse on to the launcher, nor even alt+tab is working.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thats duplicate of bug 607796