Re: Mime types and nautilus

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:23, Jens Askengren wrote:
> lör 2002-06-22 klockan 00.58 skrev George Farris:
> 
> > > > 	Shelf in sidebar. Drag files to shelf. drag shelf to destination.
> 
> Today I discovered why drag 'n drop is easier on windows compared to
> gnome: The window manager does not focus an unfocused window if you
> start dragging an icon from this window. This makes it easy to drag
> icons from a large window to a small window, without beeing disturbed by
> focus/layer changes that would cover the small window.
> 
> I'll try to change metacity to focus and raise windows on button release
> instead of press to se what effect it will have...
> 
> What do you think?

I think this solves a lot of problems; you may want to look at bug
80984, where this is discussed briefly.

Luis