Bug 155641

Summary:	Drag+drop support for the present windows effect
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	david <davidtournaire>
Component:	effects-window-management	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	erenoglu, flabbergasted, KaiUweBroulik2, kontakt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description david 2008-01-13 15:19:49 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 4.0.0)

When copared to compiz, the present windows effect has this nice little filter on windows title wich is realy nice.

So let's go on improving the user friendlyness of compozited desktop alowing to drag and drop from a window to another throught the expose like effect !

I beleive it may be a hard work, needing input redirection as I think I understant... You may whant to have a look to the "metisse" compozited window manager to get an idea, it's available on Mandriva live CD to test. Here you can resize a window "zooming" it (like the present windows does) or rotating it, click the buttons, drag and drop, the windows react as if it where  zoomed 100%.

Comment 1 lucas 2008-06-12 14:10:20 UTC

To reword the first idea: It would be nice to be able to drag-and-drop using present windows as a way of navigating between the two windows. Currently the electric corners do not trigger while dragging and when activated through the keyboard shortcut you cannot select a window without releasing the mouse button (Should select the window on hover if the mouse button is pressed).

I do not understand the second suggestion.

Comment 2 lucas 2008-06-12 14:47:20 UTC

Second suggestion is a duplicate of bug 150517.

Comment 3 lucas 2008-08-26 16:55:09 UTC

Using the more descriptive report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168297 ***

Comment 4 lucas 2008-11-20 10:46:22 UTC

Why did I mark this as a duplicate of that bug? They have almost nothing in common. O_o;

Comment 5 lucas 2009-02-20 16:45:54 UTC

*** Bug 185037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Martin Flöser 2009-07-22 13:26:29 UTC

*** Bug 201099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Martin Flöser 2011-01-03 17:57:05 UTC

*** Bug 261978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Martin Flöser 2012-03-11 16:13:09 UTC

Drag and drop cannot be added to present windows because of a bug in Qt causing the application to crash where you dragged from. This is pretty much a showstopper for implementing this feature (yes I started it once years ago).

So for the moment this is unfortunately a wontfix. I hope that with Qt 5 or Wayland the situation improves and we can implement it.

Comment 9 Emre 2013-12-08 10:23:11 UTC

Andragy news on this? This bug is effecting my productivity when I'm using KDE for work emails, where I do a lot of drag & drop for attachments.

Comment 10 Thomas Lübking 2013-12-08 10:58:55 UTC

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105341/

No idea whether that cleanly applies to 4.11