So I like Unity, it looks nifty and the Zeitgeist launcher is so productive.
One huge gripe about unity though, is that you cannot, apparently, drag&drop files between applications open in the Unity launcher bar, namely:
- a file from nautilus into thunderbird as a mail attachment
- an image from nautilus into a photo-editing program
- the same file from nautilus into an archive manager
- an image into the upload page of imgur.com opened in your browser
- anything else
I use a Precise Pangolin installation, and this is what works for me:
- Start dragging the file until you have it under your mouse pointer, ready to be dropped somewhere
- At this point you will notice the launcher bar buttons become gray (almost all of them, Nautilus and Firefox stay bright for me)
- Trying to drop onto any of the buttons, be it grayed out or bright, will NOT bring up its window
- Keep the mouse button pressed, and on your keyboard use theWinKey+TAB combination, you will see the applications buttons on the unit launcher bar brighten one at a time, cycling though both bright ones and grayed ones
- When you have highlighted the button of the program you need (for example, Thunderbird to attach a file into a mail), release the WinKey+TAB combo and the relative application window will open
- Finally drop your file in the opened window
- After you’ve done your job, flood LaunchPad with bug reports until we get this dumb problem fixed