Is this an 'Alt+Tab' Bug?

["Santanu Chatterjee" <thisissantanu gmail com>]

Hello Everybody,

Could you please suggest a workaround to the following
problem?

Problem in gist:
In recent GNOME releases, 'Alt+Tab' does not seem to work
when any mouse button is pressed.

Let me explain the problem I am facing due to this:

Suppose I intend to play a group of ogg files I have opened in
a nautilus window.

Suppose the desktop is so cluttered that I am hardly seeing the
totem window open somewhere in the Desktop.

So I select the group of files with my mouse, drag them a little
but not enough to take them away from the nautilus window,
but since I cannot view the totem window, I cannot drop them
directly onto totem.

So, while holding down the mouse button, I use 'Alt+Tab' to
cycle to totem, and once totem is visible, I release the mouse
button on totem, so that the totem playlist is populated with
the selected files. Problem solved.

However, with Fedora 6, Ubuntu Edgy, etc. that have the latest
GNOME, I cannot follow the above technique.
This is because when I select a group of files/folders in nautilus,
and start dragging them, 'Alt + Tab' becomes ineffective until
I release the mouse. But it used to work in my earlier Debian Sarge
installation.

I verified this problem even on my Dapper machine at
University as well.

I think this is a GNOME related issue.
Could you please verify if this occurs on your installation too?
If so, I would be very grateful if you could suggest any workaround.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Santanu