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[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/Dragand
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
>