GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720920
click on attachment icon should scroll to attachments (and not open the file chooser)
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:25:22 UTC
I often find myself clicking on the attachments icon. It would be nice if this would scroll down to the attachments of the mail.
An interesting idea, but if the message is short enough, there's nothing to scroll to. Another possibility would be to drop down a menu allowing the user to select which attachment to save, or "save all attachments".
One way do this in conjunction with Bug 725312 would indeed be to use a drop-down menu, making it a click-move-click to reach. Or alternatively, make the drop-down menu be a list of all attachments, including a save all option: .------------------. | [P] My plans.pdf | | [G] loclat.gif | |------------------| | Save _All | '------------------' Here, clicking the paperclip menubutton acts as a preview, and selecting the attachment opens it, while the Save All takes care of #725312. But I'm not convinced that duplication between such a menu and the icons at the bottom is terribly great.
Currently the attachment/paperclip icon is visible only on the top right of a message header which has an attachment. If you click on it, the file chooser opens the last selected folder and if you select a file obviously nothing happens. (don't know what happened in previous versions of Geary) So this is a bug: the paperclip button in a sent message should not open the file chooser. I'll change the title to highlight it. The paperclip icon helps in 2 ways: 1. as indicator, because it shows which message in a conversation contains attachments. (this is implemented already) 2. as button, it may do something else, as suggested by Mike. Gmail uses the paperclip icon only as indicator. When you click on it, nothing happens. If you want to open a preview or save to disk, you must work on the bottom of email. Just like Geary works now. IMO the paperclip button should just move the focus to the attachments bottom bar and highlight it. Jumping to the attachment bar may be helpful to avoid vertical scrolling if the message is very long. I'm against the dropdwon list.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.