Indeed when dragging something into the icon of an application which is open, it should ALWAYS bring up the window, no matter what you are dragging and no matter whether the app is supposed to be able to handle it or not.
I don't think it's a regression; though I only used 11.04 for a very short while I'm almost certain this worked the same. It is the way unity is designed (which is fundamentally wrong): - when you drag something into launcher, ALL icons of applications that are open should highlight, without trying to discern whether they can handle that kind of object you're dragging. I know this is intended to be a feature, but unless it can be 100% realiable (which will never be) it is only an annoyance. You can't accept that there is even the most remote possibility that an app that could handle the object doesn't get highlighted, while the opposite is perfectly acceptable (the object will simply be discarded when dropped, as it was in gnome). - when you finally drag the object into the icon of the application (one which is open) it should ALWAYS bring up the windows and let you drag on top of a particular window (if there is more than one) and finally bring completely up the window you choose so that you can drop the object on a particular place. This indeed comes down to a more fundamental design flaw, which is the very fact of treating icons of existing open windows the same as icons of applications to be launched. I know this is the same as MacOS, but Apple can afford to do things plainly wrong and have its user not only accept them but even love them just because they are the Apple way. A minimized window and an application to be lanched are two completely different things. Having them mixed and, worse, being treated in a similar way, is a major mistake. "high" importance is not enough. It's either this gets fixed quick or Unity should be discarded alltogether. Since Unity, actions that you would accomplish in a fraction of a second have become a pain in the ass. Give me ONE example of the opposite. I find myself carefully arranging window side by side on the screen and I feel like I have gone back to the 1990s. This is ridiculous. By the way I think the title of the report should be changed to something more general. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/873167/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
