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    <title><![CDATA[Windows aren't raised on drag and drop init]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2567/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[When I click on something to drag and drop (drag-n-drop) it e.g. in Nautilus, the window gains focus and is raised.  If the destination of my drag (e.g. another nautilus window) is above the window it is lowered and obscured. This forces me to arrange my windows before starting a drag and drop so that my destination is still visible when the source window is raised. This could be fixed by windows not being raised until mouse release instead of mouse down.  Ideally, though, there would be a special case where if drag and drop is initialized the window isn't raised until release, otherwise it is raised on click.<br />
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<b>[631 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2567</b>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from a3_nm</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Support. That's something I noticed when I switched from Windows, where this idea has been implemented. It should be fixed in Nautilus.<br /><br />To illustrate the problem, try drag-dropping something from a maximised windows to any other window. As soon as you mouse down on the item you want to drag-drop, the other window will get under the first window. If this only happened on mouse up, the drag-drop could be done more easily.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from exactopposite</title>
  <description><![CDATA[if u drag tthe item to where the window is that you want to drag to on the panel it will raise that window. so if i'm dragging from window 1 to window 2 for example: click the ite in window 1 and drag it to where u see window2  on the panel. this will raise window 2.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from dsargeant</title>
  <description><![CDATA[exactopposite, thanks for the tip.  I just tried it and it works.  This will definitely alleviate some frustration in the future.  I do think that it is slower and less intuitive than if drag and drop didn't raise the window, though. So I still think it would be an improvement to implement it]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from dsargeant</title>
  <description><![CDATA[See duplicate http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3490/ for additional comments.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from dsargeant</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Found this workaround from http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/TipsAndTricks for any interested:<br />"dragging from a window not currently active while pressing the AltGr key or the Super key (usually the Windows key) or one of the modifier key told above will not raise the window, leaving the focus on the current window (this workaround to not-raising-windows-when-they-shouldn't-be possibly only exists due to separate bugs)"]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Frants</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Gah.. this is really annoying and has been around since 2002, but still it isn't fixed. This is basic file management! Can it really be that hard to implement? :/ ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from dsargeant</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I found this explanation of why this feature isn't yet implemented: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/06/11/drag-and-drop/]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from frederik.nnaji</title>
  <description><![CDATA[yeah, sufficient would be to implement the "not raise window on mouse drag" for totem and nautilus.<br /><br />these are two are native Gnome Desktop applications, at least these two should work in concert with each other.<br />i want to drag a file from my standard file manager into my standard music-player's playlist, without thinking back to how well my other OS used to do that for me.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from tkoorn</title>
  <description><![CDATA[One thing that would really help is if you could switch windows while dragging. Under windows I usually drag stuf around by grabbing it with the mouse and then alt-tabbing to get to the right window to drop. However on ubuntu you can't use alt-tab while dragging. Adding alt-tab while dragging would make life a lot easier for me.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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