The problem seems to be in kwin - if you keep kontact running and replace the window manager by f.ex. executing in a konsole "fvwm --replace", suddenly drag and drop works fine...
Am Mittwoch 11 Januar 2012, 10:45:34 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber: > Hi all, > > Since the release of KDE 4.8 approaches fast, I would like to notify > you about https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289945 > > I raised the severity of that bug to grave as it can lead to data > loss. So far it is only reproducible with KDE 4.8, starting once I > upgraded to beta and still around with RC2. > > Find below a little discussion I had with Rolf Eike this morning in > #kde-devel: > > <Dakon> looks like you are involved in bug 289945 somehow > <Mamarok> sort of, yes, I had that problem with RC1 > <Dakon> bug 291050 has a comment saying it's a dupe > <Dakon> I remember having seen this on my laptop, too > <Dakon> for me it always opened the dragged mails in kate > <Mamarok> it chooses whatever open window is on the same desktop, for > me it tried to open stuff in Chromium > <Dakon> since this can lead to data loss and leakage of sensible > information I would vote for raising the severity of this bug > <Mamarok> the problem is with the focus I think > <Mamarok> yes, sounds like a very good idea > <Dakon> no, I can surely say it doesn't > <Dakon> I have only one window per virtual desktop > <Dakon> kate is always on #6, kontact on #1 > <Mamarok> oh, so even cross virtual desktop? Choosing whatever it > finds that is open? Ouch > <Dakon> so while this likely has to do something with focus, it's not > related to the same desktop > <Dakon> no idea, maybe it's just the last application that had focus > before or whatever > > Somebody suggested in a comment of that bug that it might be related > to Qt, but I didn't change my Qt version since quite some time, the > only change was my upgrade to KDE 4.8 beta, currently RC2 > > Thank you for looking into this > > Regards, Myriam -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer [email protected] http://www.akhuettel.de/
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