As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10
and the bug is still there.
** Tags added: desktop-bugscrub-triaged
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another example of application why this feature is needed is Brasero. You
should be able to drag and drop any file to Brasero to build a data DVD
project. At present time, dragging and dropping any file to brasero launcher
icon is impossible.
To me, this report is a major matter that should be
I agree with Magnes. As a user, I am quite used to drag and drop for
attaching files in gmail in chrome, dropping srt files to VLC media,
dropping files to dropbox to share, dropping files to archive manager,
and so on. All the things simply fail.I have to keep resizing
windows.
Adding new
also you can't drag and drop PNG files to Chrome. i'm using imgur.com
and i need to drag and drop PNG's on Chrome's current open /focus tab
(imgur). doesn't work :(
http://i.imgur.com/H11H3.jpg
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All Launcher icons sensitive on all files? This is a cause for disaster.
Imagine you have a printer icon in Launcher that is used for quick
printing PDF and ODT files. Now think about what will happen if I drag
an ISO image accidentally to that printer icon.
Mime types are here for a reason,
Another possible (quick?) solution, at least until the issue is fixed properly,
would be to have the user hold a specific key (e.g. 'Alt') while dragging.
This would inform Unity that the user wishes to override Unity's built-in
safety mechanism and allow the specific item to be opened by any
Perhaps we should add the application/octet-stream mime type to the
.destkop files of applications that can open any type of file. This
would be correct metadata, and the launcher already highlights these
applications for any file.
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Will this be fixed for 12.04? I tried contacting the developer, but got
no reponse. It's critical I think. It's broken on many, many levels.
More recent example how it breaks everything - you can't drag and drop a
movie to OpenShot window from a full screen nautilus or Krusader because
the icon
@Sebastian - I thought it was obvious - the solution Aleksi-ajp wrote is
the only reasonable.
I peaked into the source code and: the change probably needs to be in
Launcher.cpp in unity/plugins/unityshell/src/Launcher.cpp in function
ProcessDndMove. Lack of comments in the code makes it hard to
Can't the launcher be modified to allow moving file to any application but
highlight only the ones that take such files?
Or perhaps you could hold the files on non-highlighted application icon for a
while to make it highlighted and accept the file?
Some option somewhere in setting to allow
Thanks for your bug report. There have been a new release of Ubuntu
since this bug was reported so we are wondering if its still an issue
for you in Ubuntu 11.10?
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Status: New = Incomplete
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Yes, it's still an issue. Why wouldn't it be if this bug wasn't even set to
confirmed even if you can check it in one second.
It's clear and simple - try to drag a PNG file from Krusader to the Unity
launcher to Inkscape icon in the launcher. Thats it. You can't do that in
Unity. Try it for
You can even try to drag from Nautilus (I wrote Krusader because that is what I
use the most). So here is use case:
1. Open Inkscape.
2. Open Nautilus and drag some PNG file to the opened Inkscape window - it
works.
3. Now try to drag the PNG file to the Unity launcher - Inkscape icon is
The problem is also not only with Inkscape but with many more applications. So
it's not a bug in Inkscape but in the way your Unity disables icons if it
thinks (wrongly) that an application doesn't allow drag and dropping the type
of the file. Some apps open all types of files by the way, why
The applications declare the mimetypes they can handle through their
.desktop, it seems those don't do it correctly
i.e eog.desktop has:
MimeType=image/bmp;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/jpg;image/pjpeg;image/png;image/tiff;image/x-bmp;image/x-gray;image/x-icb;image/x-ico;image/x-png;image/x
Another example - you can drag and drop ANY file to Krusader. Yet
Krusader icon won't be active when you try to drag something from
Nautilus to Krusader. This thing is just broken. It should allow to drag
to disabled icons OR it shoudn't disable any icon. Someone not thought
this option through.
Some apps take ALL types of files so it's imposibble to correctly report
mimetypes for them. Inkscape probably doesn't report PNG because it's
fileformat is SVG but it takes PNG in drag and drop because it can put
it inside SVG.
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No software take all types of files no, or it's a file-manager which is
a special case, the current design might need to be updated to handled
those corner cases applications though, maybe by letting add a key in
the .desktop saying to not filter on the supported types but always
claim being a
I think Unity should highlight icons of applications it thinks can
manage that mime-type, but shouldn't prevent you from dropping in a non-
highlit icon all the same.
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You are very wrong. For example Kate opens all file types when you drag them on
it. Another example is Eclipse where you can add any type of files to project
by simply dragging (but you can't to the icon in the Launcher because of this
bug - so if the Eclipse window is hidden because you are
Ok, first this is a bug tracker, not an user forum, we don't focus on
who is right or wrong but on what are the issues and how to get them
fixed so no need to be confrontational
The fact that kate is capable to open any file is interesting but what
is the interest to drag a dvd .iso to kate? The
Kate might have been a bad example. But you kindly missed Firefox and
Google Chrome. Browsers are the most important applications these days.
Drag and droping to Eclipse is also important for adding files to
project. And don't forget about Inkscape - I don't believe it can have
PNG in supported
If somebody is dnding a jpg the goal is likely to open it in an image viewer,
not in a text editor or IDE. - or to gmail.com to attach it, or to Thunderbird
to send it in e-mail or to Inkscape. Why are you assume people are only VIEWING
images? :| No one is using IDE? No one is sending e-mails
Did you read my comments? writen in comment #9 email clients are in the
same case, you might want to attach any file to a composer
You seem to focus on issues rather than solutions, I tried in my
previous comment to suggest some way to address the issue but you only
picked on the other point to
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