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[John Lea <764424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: ayatana-design
   Importance: Critical => High

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Title:
  Launcher - dropping a file on a launcher app icon should open that
  file in the app

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Fix Committed
Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If a user drags and drops a file on top of a Launcher app icon, the
  application should open the file if it is a file type it supports.

  If the application does not support the file type nothing should
  happen.

  Most of the time this interaction does not work.  Occasionally it does
  work but it freezes the desktop requiring a unity restart.  Tested
  using .png files with Firefox and GIMP, and .html files with Firefox
  and Chrome.

  Also at the moment many Launcher icons do not highlight when the user
  starts dragging, even if the application supports opening the file
  type being dragged.

  Note the new file should be opened in exactly the same manner as when
  opening the file with the 'open with [app name]' Nautilus option, e.g.
  when opening a .txt file by dropping it on to gedit, if there is
  already one or more gedit window(s) open, the file should open into a
  tab on the most recently focused gedit window.

  UPDATE : Compiz screws up the handling when a drop happens at about
  the same time as the scale timeout goes off. It doesn't freeze so much
  as grab the mouse forever.

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