GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 256666
UI: Paste pulldown active when nothing to paste.
Last modified: 2006-02-28 14:06:09 UTC
The Paste pulldown is active in the following screenshot, even though there is nothing to paste into. I thought perhaps it was for pasting into the section above the current email folder that allows you to do searches for string, but that doesn't work. So this seems like Paste should be disabled, it doesn't do anything here. Attaching screenshot.
Created attachment 43536 [details] Screenshot, no context for "Paste" to be active.
Hmm. Well, what was copied to the clipboard at the time you took that screenshot? Just some text? I think on this one I disagree with you -- if you had cut or copied a message instead of some text, then selecting "paste" would have pasted the message into the selected folder. that is to say that there is a context in which you have copied something and paste should be active.
Hmmm... I just tried this in a vfolder and, of course, nothing happened. So paste should be disabled there. Also, it seems like paste should only be active if the content can actually be pasted.
this just activates if you have a folder. i don't know if you can determine the selection content type without actually requesting it - which is expensive and slow. so this may be quite tricky to fix.
Punting this over to 2.3 where the new menu UI should help solve this problem.
changing component to "Mailer" to get rid of the UI component, also reassigning as discussed with nags... adding UI keyword.
david, still valid in 2.5? anyway, changing target milestone from ancient 2.3 to future.
UI has changed, closing.