If I drag and drop into a background window (e.g. a composer window), the destination window should come to the front. Likewise, I should be able to drag out of a background window...

Yup. sigh... ->future

4.x doesn't bring the window dropped into to the frontmost, neither does the Finder. yes, we do need to be able to drag from a bg window, but i was thinking a bit about this this weekend and it's non-trivial, well maybe it is...we'd have to wait to bring the window to the fg on a mouse up, etc. changing summary to reflect what we want this bug to be.

I'm not sure we'd want to bring a bg window source to fg during the drag, since that can obscure the intended dest. In any case, we'll have to think a bit more about what behavior we want.

Drag from background window is bug 38646 (at least for Windows). What happened to the other part of this bug, bringing the dragged-into window to the front (on Mac only?) ?

i don't know of any app that brings the dragged-into window to the fg on mac.

And apple's HIG say that you don't activate BG windows: see the PDF doc at: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/InterproCom/DragManager/ dragmanager.html

cc brade

ok, you win. IE and word both do this. *shrug*. it's still future.

->0.9.3

ok, have a patch, needs r/sr/a

I smell tabs in that patch.

Would it be possible to fix this bug and bug 38646 (allow drags from bg windows on all platforms) at the same time, or is a platform-specific fix needed for Mac?

*** Bug 92520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

this patch works much better than the last one (besides being updated for the new event sink stuff). it draws the hilighted link in the background so the user knows what they're dragging. it also prevents click-hold context menus from coming up on the bg window if the user lingers too long.

new patch needing r/sr. I'll detab the entire file before i check it in. Ignore the fact that there are tabs/spaces mixed in the patch.

Comment on attachment 60527 [details] [diff] [review] updated patch that works better sr=sfraser

Comment on attachment 60527 [details] [diff] [review] updated patch that works better r=sdagley (and I really hate braces on the same line as the conditional but I seem to be in the minority on that :-)

fixed