When you want to drag and drop files from e.g. thunar to audacious, thunar gets immediately focus before your can drop the files to audacious. This sucks, but is easy to fix, just give the windows the focus after releasing the mouse button. Thanks for your great work, and greets from Germany. HennR
I disagree, that's counter intuitive and I know of no other (recent) window manager that behaves like that. Beside, you can use the taskbar suring DnD to select the destination window. And there is already a settings that allows you to click without raising a window, so I do not think such a change in the basic behavior of the window manager is suitable.
OK, thanks for the feedback at all.
I agree with HennR, windows should be focused when mouse button is released. Windows has this behavior and it makes drag'n'drop much easier. When doing single click, the time between click and release is so short you wouldn't notice the difference and on DnD it makes no sense to change the window arrangement when pressing the mouse button down. Besides, there is nothing counter intuitive about that, every button on every dialog window and even the taskbar are waiting for mouse button release. Thanks
I still have the same opinion on that ;) What about a compromise and making this configurable?
I also would like an option which says "Raise Windows on mouse button release". HennR spoke about drag and drop mp3 from thunar to audacious, I'll speak about videos and Vlc, different files to attach to a thunderbird mail, move files from a directory to another... examples where raise window on mouse button release would be nice are numerous. Otherwise I know a very famous window manager that does that, used on ~90% of the computers around the world ... microsoft windows (since windows 95...). I love to say to people "use Linux instead of proprietary-pattented-windows". Such an option would be an additional argument. For us, daily computer users, it's not really a problem, but think of my grandfather... Nevertheless, I'm a great Xfce fan and thank very much devs for the work they've done.
This bug has also been reported here : https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10632
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