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Bug 165762 - Drag and drop doesn't move focus
Drag and drop doesn't move focus
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112308
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.8.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-31 01:24 UTC by Haukur Hreinsson
Modified: 2005-01-31 01:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description Haukur Hreinsson 2005-01-31 01:24:22 UTC 
Dropping a dragged object onto an application constitutes input and should focus
the app, as a click would. This does not happen.



Other information:
I hit this problem sometimes when I drag a source file into scite, see it's not
what I'm looking for, hit ctrl-w, and close the file browser window instead of
the scite tab I intended to close. Clearly I have an ingrained expectation that
the window I just dropped something on has the focus. 

The problem is only relevant when metacity is not in focus-follows-mouse mode.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2005-01-31 01:38:34 UTC 
Agreed; the problem with trying to do so is the same as with raising drop-target
windows--the window manager isn't aware of what's happening because an
application has a grab.  We have to do some kind of freedesktop.org extension so
that the window manager does know.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112308 ***