[Ayatana] Drag and Drop should work properly [was: Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera]

[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

i will not reinvent the wheel here:
read this for an overview of what this is about: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/09/yes-dragon-drop-its-a-pun/Drag and drop should work properly

This problem has been around for since when i first used linux and to my surprise the lack of USB2.0 drivers was a bigger problem than DnD issues... but not that much bigger as we will see...

How will we get this out of the way?

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:07, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Owais ;)

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 19:11, Owais Lone <loneowais@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know this is off-topic but improving drag-n-drop caught my eye. Currently the windows get focus upon dragging. This makes it difficult to drag and drop in some situations. (Check the video.)

This problem is about to celebrate it's zillionth anniversary soon.
It turned me into an alcoholic for a while, as you can see from my lack of discipline in this Ubuntu Brainstorm here: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3490/

The problem's origin is upstream, see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76672
That was 2002.. :P omg sweet jeezus

If you read the description of this bug, you will read:

"by definition, 'click' is 'press and release', so metacity's behaviour is out of order."

As you can see this bug is ancient and major. Fixing this by making Metacity focus on release would make a great improvement.

Thanks for bringing this one up again, i started missing it already ;)

Nnaji