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[John Lea <764424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  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.
+ For example, if the user starts dragging a text file firefox and
+ libreoffice writer should illuminate in addition to gedit.
  
- 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.
+ Another example is dragging a tarball; thunderbird should illuminate and
+ if the tarball is dropped on the thunderbird icon it should open a new
+ message with it as an attachment.
+ 
+ 
+ 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.
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ -----------------------------
+ Desired resolution:
+ 
+ - create a new desktop key that details all file types that can be
+ imported into an application. See Robert Carr's comments #1 and #4 for
+ details.
+ 
+ - For the following applications, ensure the information about which
+ file types can be opened by a drag and drop operation is updated:
+ LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Chormium, Firefox, Gedit, Image viewer,
+ Shotwell, GIMP, Transmission, Terminal, Brasero Disk Burner, Archive
+ Manager, Evolution, Rhythembox, VLC

** Changed in: unity
       Status: Fix Released => Triaged

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Released => Triaged

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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:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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.

  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.

  For example, if the user starts dragging a text file firefox and
  libreoffice writer should illuminate in addition to gedit.

  Another example is dragging a tarball; thunderbird should illuminate
  and if the tarball is dropped on the thunderbird icon it should open a
  new message with it as an attachment.

  
  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.


  
  -----------------------------
  Desired resolution:

  - create a new desktop key that details all file types that can be
  imported into an application. See Robert Carr's comments #1 and #4 for
  details.

  - For the following applications, ensure the information about which
  file types can be opened by a drag and drop operation is updated:
  LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Chormium, Firefox, Gedit, Image viewer,
  Shotwell, GIMP, Transmission, Terminal, Brasero Disk Burner, Archive
  Manager, Evolution, Rhythembox, VLC

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