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[Christian Rupp <christian@xxxxxxxx>]

For me it's working, just drag it on the icon of banshee the song
starts, many other programs work also, but not all :((


Am 27.11.2011 21:53, schrieb frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx:
> A Unity novice complained to me that since he started using Unity he
> can't drag and drop properly anymore.
> Drag and Drop is broken for him, so he stated. "This bar doesn't allow
> dragging my songs into the player anymore, i want the old bar back"
>
> The reason is simple:
> The Window List in the old GNOME Panel would allow a user to drag e.g.
> a file from a maximized Nautilus window down onto the Window List
> button of e.g. Totem, which upon drag-hover would then autoraise
> itself to the front, affording the application window with all its
> desireable drag destinations.
>
> I see 3 ways of implementing this in Unity:
> a) auto-raise the respective application window on drag-hover, similar
> to the Window List method
> b) pop-out an elegant menu next to the Launcher item offering semantic
> drop destinations
> c) auto-raise the respective application window on drag-hover and
> highlight possible drag destinations elegantly
>
> about a) :
> been there, had that, nothing much to explain.
>
> about b) :
>
> e.g. for an .mp3, dragged from nautilus, hovering the rhythmbox
> launcher item, the following options could be displayed in the
> proposed pop-out menu:
> 1 play
> 2 play after [title of current song]
> 3 add to [name of my default library]
>
> I suggest to keep the number of popped-out drop-destinations as small
> as possible; this will keep interaction simple and fast.
>
> about c) :
> quite similar to a, except that it goes further and requires meddling
> with the application window itself.
>
>
> would this be a reasonable idea, or are there already other plans for
> launcher drag-and-drop operations?
> i also noticed that you can drag a file from the dash, but holding the
> drag over a Launcher item doesn't do anything, dropping it onto a
> launcher item doesn't do anything either iirc.
>
>
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