GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 599190
Drag and drop broken for received MIME parts
Last modified: 2009-11-19 12:00:58 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/456690 "In previous versions of Evolution (2.26, though possibly 2.24 - I don't have either to test just now) it was possible to drag an attachment from one email message to a new email message being composed. With the current version, if I drag an attachment from the attachment list of a message viewer or a message composer and drop it on a message composer's attachment list - nothing happens. There is no error message and the file being dragged is not attached to the new email. This feature is very useful when I'm writing a new email to someone and I need to attach a file another person sent me in an email. With previous versions I could simply locate the correct email and drag the attachment from there. With the current version I have to save the attachment to disk, find it using the "open file dialog" from "Add attachment" on the new email composer, and lastly find the file using the file browser and delete it."
Confirming, but it works fine for me if you drop it in the text area above the attachment list. So there's a work around in the interim.
I'm sorry, but dragging into the text area does not work for me.
Where are you dragging from? The icon in the attachment list at the top of the source message or the button at the bottom that lets you view the attachment inline? Dragging from the button does not currently work. Dragging from the icon at the top does.
I'm dragging from the icon in the list which doesn't work for me. When I drag anywhere from the list - even onto the desktop or a file browser - the "Saving" progress bar plays but nothing happens other then that. I wasn't aware that its possible to drag the button.
Matt, did you forget to close the bug ? It should be fixed as per commit http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution/commit/?id=17b6527680218efff72000b4250dea862cda0cef
I can still reproduce this in 2.28. 2.29 works fine after that commit. A different typo somewhere, I guess.
*** Bug 600401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Dragging to Nautilus is also broken. I suspect the underlying cause is the same.
*** Bug 602191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 602302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 602362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Lots of dupes piling up. I'm working on it.
Fixed for Evolution 2.28.2 in: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-28&id=e14ec8882808dd938a1edbfcadd399a4f20e1569 I don't understand why the exact same logic works in 2.29 but not 2.28. I guess if the problem crops up again in a later release I can always revisit this.