** Description changed:
If a user drags and drops a file on top of a Launcher app icon, the
application should open the file if it is a file type it supports.
If the application does not support the file type nothing should happen.
- Most of the time this interaction does not work. Occasionally it does
- work but it freezes the desktop requiring a unity restart. Tested using
- .png files with Firefox and GIMP, and .html files with Firefox and
- Chrome.
-
Also at the moment many Launcher icons do not highlight when the user
starts dragging, even if the application supports opening the file type
being dragged.
- Note the new file should be opened in exactly the same manner as when
- opening the file with the 'open with [app name]' Nautilus option, e.g.
- when opening a .txt file by dropping it on to gedit, if there is already
- one or more gedit window(s) open, the file should open into a tab on the
- most recently focused gedit window.
+ For example, if the user starts dragging a text file firefox and
+ libreoffice writer should illuminate in addition to gedit.
- UPDATE : Compiz screws up the handling when a drop happens at about the
- same time as the scale timeout goes off. It doesn't freeze so much as
- grab the mouse forever.
+ Another example is dragging a tarball; thunderbird should illuminate and
+ if the tarball is dropped on the thunderbird icon it should open a new
+ message with it as an attachment.
+
+
+ UPDATE : Compiz screws up the handling when a drop happens at about the same
time as the scale timeout goes off. It doesn't freeze so much as grab the mouse
forever.
+
+
+
+ -----------------------------
+ Desired resolution:
+
+ - create a new desktop key that details all file types that can be
+ imported into an application. See Robert Carr's comments #1 and #4 for
+ details.
+
+ - For the following applications, ensure the information about which
+ file types can be opened by a drag and drop operation is updated:
+ LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Chormium, Firefox, Gedit, Image viewer,
+ Shotwell, GIMP, Transmission, Terminal, Brasero Disk Burner, Archive
+ Manager, Evolution, Rhythembox, VLC
** Changed in: unity
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
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