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This is bug is over three years old. Is someone working on this? Drag
and drop is a basic functionality of every modern desktop. I can't
believe no one has worked on this for three years, when there are even
comments from Mark Shuttleworth about the criticality of this issue.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607796

Title:
  Launcher, Window management - Dragging and holding a selection over an
  entry in the Launcher should spread out windows belonging to that
  application

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Fix Committed
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  If the user drags and hold a file over a running application in the
  Launcher, all the windows of that application should be shown with the
  spread. The user should then be able to drag and drop the file in a
  windows in the spread to load the file into that specific window.

  Bug #727903 needs to be fixed at the same time.

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  History:

  This bug had been previously fixed as "buggybutclosed" for Unity on 2011-04-18, leaving this function with other bugs:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727903
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727904
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727902
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/764424

  On 2011-10-18, it was reopened for regression in Oneiric.

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