There was a post on the gnome developer blog about why this is a harder problem than it appears. http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/06/11/drag-and-drop/
For the record this is a very, very longstanding problem in both gnome (metacity, specifically) and KDE, and it isn't as simple as it seems. -- drag & drop improvement: delay bringing window to front until mouse released https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/29560 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
