Chromium Browser

Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox or Chromium windows while using Unity unless windows are both unmaximized, unminimized, and visible.

Bug #754580 reported by Eric Appleman on 2011-04-08

This bug affects 21 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ayatana Design	Fix Committed	High	John Lea
	Chromium Browser	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	Unity	Fix Released	Medium	Marco Trevisan (Treviño)	Unity 7.3.0
	7.2	Fix Released	Medium	Marco Trevisan (Treviño)	Unity 7.2.2 "14.04 SRU 2"
	chromium-browser (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	High	Unassigned
Nominated for Trusty by Christopher Townsend
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Trusty by Christopher Townsend
	unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Nominated for Trusty by Christopher Townsend

Bug Description

[Impact]
It's not possible to drag firefox or chromium tabs to the relative launcher icon in order to select a different window as drop target.

[Test case]
1. Open two Chromium or Firefox windows, with two tabs open in each.
2. Start dragging a browser tab over a browser icon in the Launcher
3. Unity should displays a spread of the two browser windows
4. It will be possible to drop the tab in one of the browser windows,
after selecting it in spread.

[Regression Potential]
As it happened with bug #727902 this codepath was disabled in the past, thus there's basically no regression potential.

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With Metacity, one would need only to drag the tab to the bottom bar, mouse-over the destination window, and then release the tab in the newly focused window.

There is no equivalent behavior with Unity. Dragging tabs to its bar does nothing.

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Desired resolution:

Users should be able to move tabs between browser windows irrespective of window state (minimised, restored or maximised) by dragging and dropping the via the Launcher app spread.

See original description

Tags:

Related branches

lp://staging/~3v1n0/unity/dnd-launcher-icon-fixes

Merged into lp://staging/unity at revision 3808

PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2014-04-28

Christopher Townsend (community): Approve on 2014-04-21

Brandon Schaefer (community): Approve on 2014-04-16

lp://staging/~unity-team/unity/7.2.2

Merged into lp://staging/unity/7.2 at revision 3798

Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Approve on 2014-07-04

Superseded for merging into lp://staging/unity

Unity Team: Pending requested 2014-07-01

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Eric Appleman (erappleman) wrote on 2011-04-08:

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description:	updated
description:	updated
summary:	- Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox windows unless windows are not - maximimized. + Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox windows while using Unity + unless windows are not maximimized.

Eric Appleman (erappleman) on 2011-04-08

summary:

Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox windows while using Unity
- unless windows are not maximimized.
+ unless windows are both unmaximized, unminimized, and visible.

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) on 2011-04-08

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

Alex Launi (alexlauni) on 2011-04-12

Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

Revision history for this message

Magnes (magnesus2) wrote on 2011-04-30: Re: Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox windows while using Unity unless windows are both unmaximized, unminimized, and visible.

Why this is marked Whishlist? It's a bug not a feature request.

John Lea (johnlea) on 2011-06-23

description:	updated
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee:	nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Fix Committed
tags:	added: udo

Jason Smith (jassmith) on 2011-06-30

Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)

John Lea (johnlea) on 2011-06-30

summary:	- Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox windows while using Unity - unless windows are both unmaximized, unminimized, and visible. + Cannot move tabs between multiple Firefox or Chromium windows while + using Unity unless windows are both unmaximized, unminimized, and + visible.
Changed in ayatana-design:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Neil J. Patel (njpatel) on 2011-06-30

Changed in unity:
importance:	Wishlist → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Wishlist → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)

Jorge Castro (jorge) on 2011-07-01

tags:

added: backlog

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-07-05

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

John Lea (johnlea) on 2011-10-18

tags:	added: udp
Changed in unity:
milestone:	none → backlog
Changed in ayatana-design:
status:	Fix Released → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-12-05:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote on 2012-03-27:

I'm unable to move tabs *at all* in Firefox 11 - looks more like an upstream bug than a Unity issue.

In Chromium I can successfully drag tabs between windows by pressing Ctrl+key-above-tab while holding the tab.

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Phitchayaphong Tantikul (ptantiku) wrote on 2012-05-07:

I'm still having this problem with Chromium in Ubuntu 12.04. Still cannot move tabs across windows.

Tim Penhey (thumper) on 2012-09-14

Changed in unity:
milestone:	backlog → none

Tim Penhey (thumper) on 2012-09-14

tags:

added: exbacklog

John Lea (johnlea) on 2012-10-09

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Jason Smith (jassmith) → nobody
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Jason Smith (jassmith) → nobody

John Lea (johnlea) on 2012-10-10

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

John Lea (johnlea) on 2012-10-12

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → High
Changed in unity:
importance:	Medium → High

Revision history for this message

Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko) wrote on 2012-11-30:

I consider this a duplicate of bug #607796.

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Isiah Meadows (impinball) wrote on 2013-07-11:

Here's my opinion on this:
1. I could see the reasoning why it could be a dup of #607796, and reading deeply into both, they both may be smaller yet extremely similar cases of a bigger bug with the GUI of Unity itself (which may need to be brought up on Ubuntu's OS bug tracker/forums--links provided for each for your convenience).
2. That bug in its current context does NOT show in Raring with Unity on my machine, but on the contrary, the functionality involved described here (in this bug) simply does not exist (I've tried both browsers, combined with multiple restarts). It's kinda hard to repro anything that requires a non-existent feature. :(

OS: Ubuntu 13.04
Chromium version

Links:
[1] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu
[2] http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php

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Isiah Meadows (impinball) wrote on 2013-07-11:

EDIT: that duplicate reference is in the appropriate place, and now that I started poking around a tiny bit there, yes it is most definitely a duplicate, but I still can't see it due to the second point on my original post.

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Volodya (volodya) wrote on 2013-10-27:

What i do in this situation is to make one window maximised and another unmaximised, i then make the smaller window 'Always on top'. This is pretty much the only way to fit everything on the screen of a netbook.

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-05-07

Changed in unity:
milestone:	none → 7.2.1
assignee:	nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
status:	Triaged → In Progress
importance:	High → Medium

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2014-06-04

Changed in unity:
milestone:	7.2.1 → 7.2.2

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-06-07

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released
assignee:	nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)

Christopher Townsend (townsend) on 2014-06-19

no longer affects:	unity/7.3
Changed in unity:
milestone:	7.2.2 → 7.3.0
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2014-06-20

Changed in unity:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-07-14

description:

updated

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2015-10-14

tags:

added: rls-w-incoming

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2015-10-30

tags:

added: rls-x-incoming
removed: rls-w-incoming

Will Cooke (willcooke) on 2016-02-15

tags:

removed: rls-x-incoming

Revision history for this message

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2017-04-26:

#10

In recent releases of chromium-browser, dragging a tab out of a window instantly creates a new window, which cannot be dragged into a launcher icon indeed. But that looks intentional.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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