This feature is waiting for a volunteer to step up and implement it. I did not try it because I have no knowledge of Unity and Compiz and the sorts whatsoever and am already engaged into other Ubuntu project of my own, but it seems strange to me that nobody did yet because.
1. It is obvious that the lack of this feature is of huge impact for the desktop usefulness of Ubuntu. 2. It is a REGRESSION. This feature was present in Unity on Ubuntu 11.04. 3. I might be very wrong but this seems like an easy fix. All one has to do is capture the event of a mouse-hover while dragging something to trigger the Spread animation in compiz, filtering it to display only the windows belonging to the application being hovered. Somehow this looks like a simple hack to me, but I might be wrong. Can someone confirm it's only that? Because if it is, then I might do it by the weekend, I guess? 2013/7/11 Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> > As far as I know, this feature in its entirety does not exist in 13.04, > even in a broken state. I do have a few questions regarding this: > 1. Is this functionality even supposed to exist in any form on this > version? > 2. If it is, how can I tell if it actually does exist? > 3. If it does exist, how would I be able to ensure that it is actually > working? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (870769). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607796 > > Title: > Launcher, Window management - 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 One Hundred Paper Cuts: > Fix Released > 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. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/607796/+subscriptions > -- Pablo Almeida http://www.google.com/profiles/pabloalmeidaff9 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607796 Title: Launcher, Window management - Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should spread out windows belonging to that application To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/607796/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
