I'll try to take a look, at least. I still have some time before my time
starts running out easily again. Anyway, as this is a bug, if it get fixed,
it can still get into Quantal, I guess, so it's not like there's a deadline.

2012/10/5 Martin Wildam <[email protected]>

> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Pablo Almeida
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This trick works! Thanks! I'm wondering...
>
> I am happy that I could help. :-)
>
>
> > we already have the code in
> > compiz for showing all windows, so all Unity needs is to call this
> plugin's
> > code and somehow filter it to only show only the windows for the
> > application being hovered, is that right?
>
> Yes, that's exactly, what I think too.
>
>
> > I never worked with patches, packages and stuff
>
> Unfortunately this applies to me also - I did a lot of testing, but
> never patching on my own. And unfortunately my available time does not
> allow to dig into patching although I would feel great if I could
> contribute also with patching. :-(
>
> Best regards, Martin.
>
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>
> Title:
>   Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should
>   spread out windows belonging to that application
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in Unity:
>   Triaged
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   If the user drags and hold a file over a running application in the
>   Launcher, all the windows of that application should be shown with the
>   spread. The user should then be able to drag and drop the file in a
>   windows in the spread to load the file into that specific window.
>
>   Bug #727903 needs to be fixed at the same time.
>
>   -----------------------------------------------
>
>   History:
>
>   This bug had been previously fixed as "buggybutclosed" for Unity on
> 2011-04-18, leaving this function with other bugs:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727903
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727904
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/727902
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/764424
>
>   On 2011-10-18, it was reopened for regression in Oneiric.
>
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