afakhry@, Does the magnifying window place itself based on view focus? 

Yes, the docked magnifier should center itself around the focused view. See https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/ash/accelerators/ash_focus_manager_factory.cc?q=AshFocusManagerFactory::Delegate::OnDidChangeFocus&sq=package:chromium&l=38

Maybe we could do things differently when drag and drop is in progress for example?

Afakhry@ any idea on a priority for this? 

I'd leave it at P2. +lpalmaro if she thinks otherwise.

Does it help if we skip notifying the magnifiers if a drag and drop is in progress like this:?

  aura::client::DragDropClient* drag_drop_client =
      aura::client::GetDragDropClient(view's window);
  if (drag_drop_client && drag_drop_client->IsDragDropInProgress())
    return;

Does it work?

Unassigned for triage.

->> weidongg as the owner of Launcher nowadays.

Per newcomer@, this should remain on the Launcher team's backlog for now.

I'm not able to reproduce this in 71. Are you still seeing this? 

This does repro on 71 even when just dragging full screen launcher down. Moving it higher in the hotlist.

This happens because search box by default has the focus even when an item is being dragged. This issue does not exist if you shift focus to other views. It might be solved if we set the focus to dragged view in dragging.