Bug#827490: nautilus: cannot drag and "follow" files into sidebar entries

[nickpontillo]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.20.1-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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Normally when you're dragging a file and hover over a folder in nautilus, it
opens that folder. This allows you to drag a file through multiple levels of
folders in one drag, without having to release and click every time.

However, when I drag files into any of the sidebar entries (Documents,
Downloads, etc) the entry doesn't open. So I have to drag and release into the
sidebar, then click on the sidebar entry to open it, and then click on the
files and drag again.

I think I remember being able to do this in older versions of nautilus.

At the very least, I would like there to be an option in the preferences to
allow reenable this functionality.

Thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.20.0-3
ii  gvfs                       1.28.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.22-11
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libexempi3                 2.3.0-2
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.20.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.48.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.48.1-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12      3.20.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.20.6-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.20.1-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.40.1-1
ii  libselinux1                2.5-3
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.8.0-2+b1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.3-1
ii  nautilus-data              3.20.1-3
ii  shared-mime-info           1.6-1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  gnome-sushi      3.20.0-1
ii  gvfs-backends    1.28.2-1
ii  librsvg2-common  2.40.15-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
pn  brasero                <none>
ii  eog                    3.20.2-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.20.0-4
ii  totem                  3.20.1-3
ii  tracker                1.8.0-2+b1
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.2.4-1
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.2.4-1
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-2

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