GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 499667
Drag and drop + window focus
Last modified: 2007-11-26 04:17:00 UTC
Picture the following: you have a video folder open in Nautilus. You then start up VLC, which places itself in front of the nautilus window. When you try to drag and drop a file from the nautilus window into VLC, nautilus gets sent to the front, so you can't complete the operation. Is it plausible to add a feature to raise a clicked-on window only after mouse button up, and/or to cancel the impending window raise if the click becomes a drag? In my opinion, this would be quite useful at least as an option. Other information: Added note: Just for reference, I found out that on OS X Leopard, this approach is implemented in drag + dropping.
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