Comment 17 for bug 995039

Thanks for trying to make Ubuntu better, but necroing a 3-year-old bug to register a complaint about unrelated functionality is not the best way to go about doing that.

The bug described in the 'Bug Description" was definitely fixed years ago. I just verified I can drag and drop files between (maximized or not) Nautilus windows, and drag and drop a file from a Nautilus window to the Unity Dash and have it open any application that has registered the appropriate MIME-type support.

If you want applications to register their support for particular MIME-types, you will need to take that issue up with the upstream developers of that application. Using MIME-type to determine legitimate targets for drag-and-drop is the documented, standard way of performing that action. There is no other way for a desktop shell to determine if a drag and drop action is valid.

I am marking this bug as fixed because tests show it is fixed in at least 14.04 and later.