Please check your taskbars for Raise On Drag

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:55:49 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:

> On 26 January 2011 18:36, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just noticed that KDE 4.6 does not raise a window when a file is
>> dragged to it's Taskbar item. I would appreciate it if users of Gnome,
>> XFCE, and earlier KDE could test this. Bonus Internet points if someone
>> could test on Windows or Mac!
>>
>>
> On OSX dragging an .xls from finder to the already open LibreOffice icon
> brings the LibreOffice window to the front and displays the spreadsheet.
> 
> Do people actually _do_ this though? I think I may have maybe once or
> twice in my computing life, certainly never in the last year have I
> tried to do that on any platform.

I use this method regularly on GNOME. Not just for local files, but even 
for opening images from the web. Just drag an image on a website from 
Firefox to GIMP on the taskbar, the GIMP windows appear, and drag the 
image to the GIMP windows to open and edit the image.

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