alt+tab does not work with drag and drop

Bug #913296 reported by Reece H. Dunn
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Triaged
Medium
John Lea
Compiz
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Compiz Core
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Use Case:

Dragging movie/audio files from nautilus to totem.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. open totem media player full screen
2. open nautilus full screen
3. browse to media files
4. select some media files (e.g. a movie file) and move it to start a drag and drop operation
5. press Alt+Tab

Observations:

Nothing happens.

Expected Results:

Alt+Tab should allow the user to switch tasks and preserve the drag state, so the user can drag files from one application to another.

Notes:

Drag and drop works if the applications are tiled to the left/right of each other, or if they are windowed so it should work when they are full screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 5434425585a31b50d9fa7c3153a37fe1
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,regex,snap,move,vpswitch,grid,mousepoll,gnomecompat,animation,place,imgpng,wall,expo,resize,unitymtgrabhandles,ezoom,workarounds,session,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Sat Jan 7 23:09:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-24 (105 days ago)

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Reece H. Dunn (msclrhd-gmail) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs) wrote :

The problem statements is explained well. Please fix this issue. This is a big usability problem.

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs) wrote :

By the way, this was filed under 11.10. I am seeing the same problem on 12.04 Precise.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

this bug needs input from design team so I subscribed them to the report and changed the status to incomplete. Once we get response from them the status will be changed accordingly.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Sparhawk (sparhawkthesecond) wrote :

FWIW, this is standard behaviour with Mac OS X, and has been for a little while now. I was a little surprised that Ubuntu didn't exhibit the same behaviour when I migrated recently.

John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udp
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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dayf (dayf) wrote :

Regarding the design input, let me note that it works/used to work with Unity 2D in Ubuntu 11.04 (unity-2d being based on metacity then).

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 111939, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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