I don't mean to sound like some unwilling-to-contribute-will-just-whine sort of user, but frankly, Canonical should be writing the patch if nobody has stepped up to do so yet. While one of the advantages of open source from a user's perspective is that you can fix bugs on your own given the time, one of the advantages of open source as a business model is that you have the code to all of your product's (Ubuntu's) bundled software, so you're not stuck waiting for upstream to implement their own fix while you have deadlines to keep.
Dapper is going to be a supported release for 3 years. I think it's in your own interest not to ship a broken product. -- Drag n' Drop directories from File-Roller is somewhat tricky https://launchpad.net/bugs/13199 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
