** Changed in: ayatana-design Importance: Critical => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/764424
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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/764424/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp