Re: [Usability] Focus changes while dragging icons

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 14:07 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In nautilus (and other applications) the focus of windows changes when
> the user is dragging an icon (file) over it. This is quite annoying when
> for example a bigger window suddenly hide a smaller one where you
> precisely want to drop the file.
> 
> On other OS (MacOSX and MS/Windows) when you drag a file the focus stay
> unchanged.
> 
> So what do you think about that? What should be the behavior?

The behaviour in MacOS X and Windows is correct, but it's for technical
reasons it's not implemented.

Check bugizlla under gtk+.

Cheers