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Idea #3490: Focus should not be lost during drag-n-drop

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #2567: Windows aren't raised on drag and drop init.
Written by adityakavoor the 6 Mar 08 at 08:15. Category: Accessibility. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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This is the most annoying feature in ubuntu for me. Consider you play some media. Open the directory where your movie / song is located. Then open totem / vlc player. Now you click on the required movie to drag-n-drop into vlc player. Right after you click focus completely shifts to nautilus and vlc goes to background thus making it hard to drag and drop.

Windows gives focus to explorer only when the click is completed ( ie you press and release the mouse button ).
Ubuntu gives focus just on press.

I feel many of you agree with this.
Tags: drag-drop

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Written by adityakavoor the 6 Mar 08 at 08:15.
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cojones wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 10:01
Aye. KDE does this too.

dsargeant wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 13:30
This is the same as http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2567/ I submitted it as a dupe hoping it would combine our votes. Hopefully it won't affect this idea's status as a popular idea.

Frants wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 15:01
This really should be fixed! +1

fall-out wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 15:57
It would be VERY NICE if this problem with the lost of window foucs during drag and drop would be fixed. I wondered why this has not been done since the last Ubuntu releases??

Dolanor wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 16:21
Totally agree !
It is really annoying. Even if I'm not a Windows lover at all. Its particular way to doing drag'n'drop here, is better than with nautilus/kde

forteller wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 18:05
Yes, please fix! This is so annoying!

madhusudancs wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 18:27
I give a thumbs up to this idea. But I strongly feel this has something to do with GNOME rather than Ubuntu. It would be nice if someone files this as a feature request in GNOME bugzilla.

adityakavoor wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 18:42
Feature Request filed at bugzilla.gnome.org

Bug 520807

sdsalsero wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 21:47
This is a problem with Gnome, not Ubuntu.

frederik.nnaji wrote on the 22 Oct 08 at 17:43
so what?
shuttleworth calls the shots in gnome, too.
canonical definitely has engineers in the gnome i would bet, and gnome is the standard desktop for ubuntu..
this IS an ubuntu problem, because it applies to the standard user interface of Ubuntu Linux.

either Canonical introduces its own patches for totem and nautilus at least, or they hand an official feature request upstream to their people @ Gnome ...


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