@John Lea I'm sorry to say that drag and drop from the Dash to another window is currently NOT supported. It only works for files in Nautilus, as far as I know. Dragging a file from the Dash to a browser to, for example, upload photos to Google+ does not work.
2012/8/10 Rolandas Garla (Gmail) <607...@bugs.launchpad.net> > @John Lea; > > I'm sorry John, I didn't mean to offend any of the contributors that > dedicate their time. You're right, it's easy to stand aside and comment. > My comments were out of frustration and aimed at management rather than to > dedicated and hardworking contributors. What I was trying to say was that > something is not working right at the higher level, i.e. what is the point > of pushing release after release of only half-baked product. In my opinion > it's counter productive. This bug and many others just demonstrate this. > What I'm saying is not helpful, I agree. I'm not a developer but I have > some experience in s/w development project management as part of my job. > After spending a few years with ubuntu as a user, I regret to realise that > it lacks direction and attitude that is so much needed, especially if you > are to compete in the OS market. > > I'm sincerely sorry if I offended anyone, it wasn't my intention. > > Regards > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (870769). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607796 > > Title: > Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should > spread out windows belonging to that application > > Status in Ayatana Design: > Fix Committed > Status in Compiz Core Ubuntu: > Invalid > Status in Unity: > Triaged > Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > If the user drags and hold a file over a running application in the > Launcher, all the windows of that application should be shown with the > spread. The user should then be able to drag and drop the file in a > windows in the spread to load the file into that specific window. > > Bug #727903 needs to be fixed at the same time. > > ----------------------------------------------- > > History: > > This bug had been previously fixed as "buggybutclosed" for Unity on > 2011-04-18, leaving this function with other bugs: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727903 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727904 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727902 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/764424 > > On 2011-10-18, it was reopened for regression in Oneiric. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/607796/+subscriptions > -- Pablo Almeida http://www.google.com/profiles/pabloalmeidaff9 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607796 Title: Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should spread out windows belonging to that application To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/607796/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
