GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 250851
Cannot drag and drop multiple attachments from evolution
Last modified: 2005-09-08 07:44:25 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: Cannot drag and drop multiple attachments from evolution to eg. desktop or nautilus window Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open a message with several attachments and try to drag eg. 3 from them 2. 3. Actual Results: It is not possible to d'n'd multiple attachments Expected Results: To be able to d'n'd multiple attachments How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: The attachments pane could be made like in Outlook. I can understand that many persons don't like Outlook and MS, but it shouldn't prevent us from getting good ideas from it.
are you talking about the composer? or the message preview pane?
I talk about received messages. This is not working in preview pane. This is also not working when double-click on message and open it in separate window. If I open a message in separate window (using double-click) I would like to be able to select several attachments and drag them to some folder (at one time - not one-by-one). Also d'n'd to another (newly composed) message would be nice. For eg. 15 attachments, in Outlook I do it with 2 mouse-clicks, in Evolution I need to make tens of clicks.
this is gonna be impossible to do since gtk won't let you drag multiple widgets
Why it should be impossible? You can drag multiple messages between folders in Evolution. You can drag multiple files in nautilus Many thousands of other examples. Why should it be impossible to drag many attachments? Maybe a differen view would be needed (eg. like icon view in nautilus).
This might be related to the way the attachments are presented in the evolution mailer. From nautilus one can select several objects and drag'n'drop them into evolution, so why not the other way around?
This is not a technical problem. It looks like that they simply don't care and are not willing to implement it.
in the evolution view, each attachment button is a separate widget which cannot be multiply selected. until that can happen, we cannot do multi-drag&drop
It is well known to me. But I don't suppose that gtk will support it in near future if ever. The solution to this ugly problem is to change not gtk but the evolution. Why not to have attachments organised like in Outlook or like files in nautilus icon view?
On Evolution-2.4, there is a facility to save all attachments by a single click.