Bug 295142

Summary:	Dragging a file with executable permission over the task bar doesn't raise window.
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	dE <de.techno>
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	master.homer
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description dE 2012-03-01 14:55:11 UTC

Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

This's the same as bug Bug 261443, but it's not yet fixed.

For e.g. if you try and drag a file over K3b which is at the taskbar, K3b's window won't get raised if the file has x bit set.

Reproducible: Didn't try


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Comment 1 dE 2012-03-06 08:24:39 UTC

Any particular reason why?

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-05-22 10:20:34 UTC

And which version is this report about?

Comment 3 dE 2012-05-22 14:04:59 UTC

Done

Comment 4 dE 2012-09-23 12:37:40 UTC

Ironic, this bug is not yet fixed.

Comment 5 Mathias Tillman 2012-09-24 10:57:13 UTC

I can confirm this bug in 4.9.1. The problem here is that shouldIgnoreDragEvent method of kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/abstracttaskitem.cpp is set to ignore executable files, as executable files are "supposed" to be used as launchers.

One easy way to reproduce is by trying to drag and drop a file from an NTFS drive (without the noexec flag), since NTFS partition files are set to be executable by default.

Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-10-11 10:27:12 UTC

Setting status to confirmed.

Comment 7 Aaron J. Seigo 2013-06-15 15:08:25 UTC

This is because dropping executables creates launchers. Dropping files, executables or otherwise, is a lower priority feature than launcher support, so when choosing what behaviour to adopt launcher support was selected.