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by Meai 1451 days ago
With wayland I now can't drag&drop to extract files from archives onto the file manager. Issue open literally for 3 years now: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/4

I don't expect this to be fixed for another 5-10 years. I used to drag to extract files almost every single day, it's a core use for me. Simply broken now. I get nothing from Wayland, it was a net downside for me.

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From what I'm reading in that bug report, the problem is that file-roller (a GNOME archiving utility) has a hokey homebrewed implementation of drag-and-drop which no longer works under Wayland. This looks like file-roller's fault, not Wayland's -- other GNOME applications have no problems with DnD.