When in the inventory you can always drop items, including when already holding another item in the cursor, but once a GUI is open you can't drop an item while holding an item. This is clearly unintended and inconsistent, as the cursor dropping behavior changes depending on what GUIs are opened besides inventory.
Steps to reproduce:
Open the inventory
Take an item into the cursor
Hover over a different item and press Q
Observe that the item is dropped
Place any block that opens a GUI, e.g. crafting table
Open the GUI, e.g. of the crafting table
Select an item
Hover over a different item
Try dropping the item
Observed behavior:
Observe that despite not using the crafting table and being in the same inventory as before, the item isn't dropped
Expected behavior:
Item drop behavior should be the same no matter what additional GUI components are opened
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