Launcher - should allow to dnd on any icon (and not just the ones matching the type)

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 873167, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Quoting the sabdfl from bug #873167

"we should allow you to drag to ANY window of ANY running app via the launcher. Using the mime types as a way to guide the user to *likely* apps is fine, but don't stop me from hovering over another app and opening that apps windows so I can JFDI."

Hello Hannes_S, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Fabulously fixed!

There are now two strange behaviours:

1a. Drag&Drop a file from Desktop (even from an open Nautilus window ) to launcher: Only programs with according mimes are highlighted.
1b. Drag&Drop from a Nautlius Folder (not Desktop or Subfolder of Desktop): all starter are highlighted

2. If you Quickly Drag&Drop from Desktop to launcher (push it to the most left): all starter are highlighted.

I would expect the 'desktop-behaviour': Highlight only apps that can handle the dragged mimetype (but give the possibility to drop also on other apps).

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.12-0ubuntu1

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unity (5.12-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
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