I like the possibilty to use drag and drop to open files from nautilus in
an already running application. But what I find very disturbing is the
fact, that when I select the files in nautilus, the nautilus window gets
focused, and in case the app window is behind the nautilus window, I no
longer have a destination to drop the files.
The solution would be to do the same thing as MS Windows does: If you drag
files onto the tasklist (and dont drop them), after some secs the
associated application pops onto the top and you can drop the files on the
application.
The problem I was seeing is now fixed, indeed. I don't know, how do it
with grouped apps, I don't like that feature, so I always disable it.
Maybe someone could have a look at a Windows version that supports it?
I think KDE supports it, too (grouped apps & drag'n'drop over the
tasklist).
Bug 125821 has a good idea for what to do (assuming we keep our current grouping
mechanism):
If you are dragging an object, and you hover the mouse over a group button
on the window list for a couple of seconds, the group should expand so you
can hover over an app button for the app would get focus.
Currently, nothing happens. (At least when "Group windows when space is
limited", but I doubt this matters.)
Elijah, I've been trying to cook a patch for this bug, but there's a gtk+
limitation with this, during DnD operation, the pointer is grabbed, and
gtk_menu_popup fails to work because it can't grab the pointer again.
So a solution could be creating a custom popup menu for this case, but I don't
really think it's the best solution :/
NoWhereMan: It's okay; sometimes it's hard to find these dupes without knowing more about the modules. You might want to give the simpler-dup-finder a whirl, though and tell me what you think (see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-bugsquad/2006-June/msg00000.html for more details).