Re: [Usability] Alt+Tab while drag & drop

[Valent Turkovic <valent turkovic gmail com>]

Curtis Hovey wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 15:06 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I find one thing missing in my daily using gnome dekstop to move files 
> > around in nautilus. When I select and would like to drag&drop some file 
> > to a different nautilus window I can only do that if that nautilus 
> > windows is visible.
> > I usually have some other window covering my target windows and I try to 
> >   switch to my target nautilus window but while you are allready holding 
> > files with left mouse click Alt+Tab for switching windows doesn't work.
> > Can this be made to work?
>
> Step outside the mouse and keyboard combination, I think you can achieve
> the desired behaviour by first dragging window in the task bar, then you
> can drop your files in the newly raised window.

I do that now that way because I have no option doing it the way I 
described it, and dragging my mouse onto taskbar with target window, 
then target window appears and I drop the files. But that is much slower 
and much less usable than using both keyboard and mouse.