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> you can open a file by dragging it onto an app on the taskbar

I honestly thought this wasn't true because it never worked when I tried it. Is the third party support for this feature just really lacking compared to macOS where it seems universal?

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IIRC you gotta hold the file over the program's taskbar icon for bit then it changes to that window as active and there you can drop. Try with e.g. Your browser on Google drive for uplaoding

That's a separate thing that seems more widely supported. The article seems to be talking about dropping on the program's taskbar button itself: "In Windows 10, you can open a file by dragging it onto an app on the taskbar."

As far as I can tell, no programs support that. Every one I've tried pins the document instead, so I'm wondering if they're mistaken. It does work on KDE.

Hold shift while dropping.

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