Bug 674886 - GNOME drag-and-drop from Nautilus fails
Summary: GNOME drag-and-drop from Nautilus fails
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-03 16:31 UTC by David Tonhofer
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:58 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 16:01:29 UTC
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Description David Tonhofer 2011-02-03 16:31:18 UTC
Description of problem:

Some kind of focus problem... Nautilus or the Gnome framework? Assigning to Nautilus.

1) Maximize Nautilus window, so that it occupies the whole screen area.
   In this case, we are on a directory ("Soundtracks") containing lots of
   subdirectories (e.g. "Avalon" and "Inland Empire")
2) Totem Movie Player is running and will drag-and-drop directory "Avalon"
   into it.
3) As Nautilus occupies the whole screen, it hides Totem. However, the 
   GNOME Panel 2.32.0.2 displays the Totem Movie Player Icon. So we
   shall proceed as in Microsoft Windows:
4) - Grab the icon for "Soundtracks/Avalon"
   - While not releasing it, move the mouse to the player icon in the panel.
   - Totem Movie Player pops up in the foreground, partially hiding the 
     Nautilus window.
   - Drop the still grabbed "Soundtracks/Avalon" into Totem's window.
5) This doesn't work at all. The behaviour is as if Totem didn't come into the
   picture at all: the grabbed directory is not read by Totem but actually
   is moved by Nautilus to a subdirectory hidden by the Totem window, e.g.
   "Inland Empire".
6) Confusion results!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Nautilus 2.32.2.1

How reproducible:

Always

Comment 1 José I Romero 2011-02-22 15:44:34 UTC
I can reproduce this bug in my up to date F14 install.

Comment 2 José I Romero 2011-03-09 15:55:09 UTC
Any news on this bug? it's extremely annoying, it's not only drag and drop in totem that fails, it also fails in pidgin, gimp and pretty much any other app i tested.

Comment 3 Pavel_Ognev 2011-06-19 16:26:02 UTC
First drag-and-drop after system boot works properly. At other tries - don't work. I see transparent icon of file and drag-and-drop cursor, but destination application ignore them.

When I make "killall nautilus", I take another one working drag-and-drop.

I've tried this on gedit, firefox, amarok and k3b.

Comment 4 Pavel_Ognev 2011-06-19 16:29:41 UTC
I've downgraded nautilus to version 2.32.0. Bug still remains.

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