[Evolution] suggestion for an enhancement on saving attachments

[Luis Villa]

I believe the drag'n'drop file behaviors are hoped for in the 1.1/1.2
timeframe.
Luis

On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 15:40, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> le lun 15-10-2001 à 20:10, Luis Villa a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 14:02, mark wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Please find below some ideas ive had with future enhancements for evo:
> > > 
> > > 1.Ive noticed that when you go to save an attachment, and you don't wont
> > > to save in directly in '/home/user-name/', but you browse to the
> > > selected location, say '/home/user-name/tmp' it removed the name of the
> > > file.
> > > 
> > > It would be very helpful if you could just browse to the selected folder
> > > and then click save.
> > > 
> > > This would then keep the original name of the attachment, re entering
> > > the attachment name is fine on small titles, but say you have a large
> > > name, it can be difficult to remember what its called
> > 
> > It's a gtk bug; we've fixed it anyway in packages we should be releasing
> > soon to Red Carpet. Whether or not the upstream maintainers accept the
> > patch is still an open question, I believe.
> 
> The really coolest way would be to just drag and drop to save an
> attachment.
> 
> > > 2. To be able to attach more than one file in the same directory at the
> > > same time, buy say holding down the shift key.
> > > As at present you have to keep pressing the attach icon, and if the
> > > files you require are buried beep in the directory tree this can get a
> > > little frustrating at times
> 
> I think you can dnd from Nautilus ...
> 
> 	Xav
> 
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Luis Villa
Ximian Bugmaster
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