GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 91406
Dragging something over grouped apps in tasklist should open the group menu
Last modified: 2018-01-24 13:16:21 UTC
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.
mfcn: I think that feature is very much there atm. relevent bug that fixed it is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80736 Moving it to libwnck, which implements it.
ah! now i realize. Are the apps grouped? If yes the fix I mentioned was for ungrouped apps.
I'll reopen this so it gets onto the radar again. Close it if it's not a problem any longer.
I have no idea how to fix this for grouped apps - which app in the group do you raise?
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).
Havoc, wouldn't it make sense to raise the last active window in a group? Or do we not have that information?
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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.)
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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 :/ any thoughts?
I have no idea how one would workaround a problem like that, or if it's possible. You'll need to get Mark, Havoc, or some gtk+ hacker to comment...
Moving to the right component. Sorry for the spam.
Retitling.
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sorry for doubke posting (again... today I have to improve my searching abilities...)
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).
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The Xfce 4.4 panel implements drag and drop to items in its launcher submenus. If one have Xfce 4.4 installed, it can be demonstrated like this: 1. Run xfce4-panel. 2. Add a new launcher to a panel. 3. Open the launcher properties dialog for the launcher. 4. Add more launcher items. 5. Close the dialog window. 6. Begin a drag operation with a file from Nautilus or Thunar. 7. Hover over the arrow button of the launcher. 8. The submenu will pop up. Drag the file to one of the menu items. Xfce 4.4 panel launcher source code: http://svn.xfce.org/index.cgi/xfce/view/xfce4-panel/tags/xfce_4_4_2/plugins/launcher/launcher.c If something like this could be implemented for grouped tasks, with drag hovering over a grouped menu item raising the window, then I would be very happy :)
(In reply to comment #23) > The Xfce 4.4 panel implements drag and drop to items in its launcher submenus. Support for this has just been added in xfce4-panel svn trunk (to be part of Xfce 4.6), with revision 29414 [1]. Described by the developer as "Still a bit of a hack but less worse then the previous implementation." [1]: http://svn.xfce.org/index.cgi/xfce?view=revision&revision=29414
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How come this is an 8 year old bug? Is it that hard to implement? It's quite annoying that I can't drag and drop something (like a file or folder in Nautilus) on another window in a grouped taskbar list. IMHO it's a much needed usability improvement.
(In reply to comment #29) > How come this is an 8 year old bug? Is it that hard to implement? Yes, it's hard to implement this in a non-broken way.
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