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Currently with Dolphin, if a user wants to use drag and drop and they have a maximized Dolphin window open, which they'll be using as a source window, and then they open a terminal window, which will be the designation window in front of the Dolphin window, if they go to drag an icon from the dolphin window in back, the dolphin window jumps to the front of the designation window.



Now I know that you can drag the icon to the task manager plasmoid, but it can be non intuitive when there are many windows open, (and I don't know how if it works with grouped windows or not), and it adds a delay as you have to wait with the icon over the task manager entry for 3 second. (3 seconds can be long for operations like this)

Also I don't know if many Windows users, or users in general know if that feature exists.

That's why I think Dolphin windows should be configured to focus on mouse release instead of click, and should have a configuration within Dolphin to enable that or disable that. (and I think it should be enabled by default.)

I know there is a configurable behavior rule-set for kwin within KDE, but this idea is regarding a configuration within Dolphin to set a rule for them.

What do you think?

This should be implemented in the window manager (KWin) rather than individual applications, and there is already an idea for that.

Marking this as a duplicate of 62491.