Drag-n-drop function does not work for moving/ copying messages between folders

[dodgy_pro]

At the newest version of evolution on Gutsy beta (Evolution 2.12.0) there is a problem with the drag-n-drop between messages and folders.

I cannot move or copy a message from Inbox (for example) to an other folder I have created under "On this Computer". This can successfully been done only by right-clicking --> Move to a folder...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Not confirming, that works correctly on my gutsy. Does it happen with a stock account?

[dodgy_pro (dodgy-pro-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm sorry. Could you please explain, what you mean by "stock account"?

[dodgy_pro (dodgy-pro-deactivatedaccount)]

Nevertheless I didn't reconfigure Evolution. I used it over the last months and the problem arose just after the upgrade. My accounts and folders stay the same, without my having made any change.

I know it is of minor importance, though it is something!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

stock account = new user, something without extra changes to the configuration, extra programs running, applets, themes, etc can create issues

[dodgy_pro (dodgy-pro-deactivatedaccount)]

Well, after your last comment, I only change the theme of Ubuntu with a custom I used before (only icon theme) and indeed the issue with the program has vanished and the drag-n-drop works again. I would not have imagined that such a change could have such consequences. It had never occurred to me in the past.

After the change of the theme, it now works again with all themes, including the default of Ubuntu!

I assume you are working to make clear what causes such conflicts and thank you for your interest!

[dodgy_pro (dodgy-pro-deactivatedaccount)]

Let me report that I found another issue I had not regarded so much as I should... I use Evolution through Alltray (so as to dock the program at the notification area instead of minimizing to the window list). Whenever I run Evolution through it, the problem exists, when I run Evolution "clearly", there is no problem. The theme has nothing to do with it. Simply I quited the program when I changed the theme and ran it again without Alltray...

It turns out that it was a matter of Alltray, though it still looks strange to me.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's the second drag and drop bug on evolution we get due to alltray, reassigning

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I have the same problem. When compiz is activated and I start evolution with alltray, drag and drop does not work. So I made some tests:

compiz + alltray + evolution = bug
compiz + evolution = ok
alltray + evolution = ok

I am using compiz with the nvidia-glx-new package.

uname -a
Linux deepthought 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[dodgy_pro (dodgy-pro-deactivatedaccount)]

You are right. I have the same results on Gutsy.

[edonia (uwe-ufritz)]

Lightning (calendar in thunderbird) has a new drag&drop-conversion feature, i.e. you can transition items between tasks, events, and emails from one to the other by dragging & dropping them to the matching mode toolbar button

This works also not with
compiz + alltray + thunderbird

but works with:
compiz + thunderbird
alltray + thunderbird

[Léo Studer (leo-studer)]

Just like edonia, drag and drop is disabled when using compiz+alltray. But it works correctly in the two later modes edonia wrote about.

[Eric Morgan (gemorgan)]

I confirm that drag and drop of a plain email message to a folder does not work in Hardy with Thunderbird + compiz + alltray. It does work if I start without alltray.

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

I confirm this bug exists in interpid

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

Adding link to AllTray main project.

[yan (yannn)]

I can confirm this problem for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) with Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (20090105) and Alltray 0.69-1ubuntu2:

No visual effects + Alltray + Thunderbird: Drag&drop works
Normal visual effects + Alltray + Thunderbird: Drag&drop doesn't work
Normal visual effects + Thunderbird: Drag&drop works

[rrand (rarehost2004)]

I can also confirm this in Intrepid but also drag & drop functionality is lost when adding columns to the e-mail table. Drag & Drop is the only way to get new columns into the table.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

There is a (raw) test release of the new 0.7.xdev series of AllTray, version 0.7.2dev which is a rewrite that is slated to become 0.8.0. Can you download it from https://edge.launchpad.net/alltray/trunk/0.7.1dev (that's not a typo; I haven't figured out how to create arbitrary releases just yet, it looks like they have to be associated with a milestone, which doesn't make sense to me) and see if drag-and-drop works with it?

Many of the features of the current AllTray need to be brought forward to the 0.7.x tree yet, but it should be functional enough for you to determine whether or not the new AllTray will handle DND correctly; this new line in development handles windows and applications very differently than previous releases, so the issue should be resolved there. Just keep in mind that there are many features from current (0.69/0.70) AllTray releases that need to be brought to the 0.7.xdev series yet, so it's not suitable for every-day use.

Thanks!

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

A fix for this is in the development tree that will become 0.8.0 (specifically, AllTray doesn't play tricks on the windows anymore and uses a totally different mechanism to perform the docking, and so it no longer interferes with things like the XDND spec).

[Stefan L. (stefanl.)]

on Fedora 12
alltray 0.7.4dev + compiz + evolution
WORKS fine

[mlaverdiere (mlaverdiere)]

I just found that drag & drop works when using Thunderbird with Alltray with "-nm" option, on Ubuntu 9.10 (with Compiz).

[Kip Warner (kip)]

I can confirm that I am having the same problem with Evolution 2.30.3 under Lucid on amd64. I am also using alltray, but I tried both with or without the -na switch, to no avail. But if I move a message without using alltray, it works fine.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Can any/all who is affected see if this bug is still relevant with the newer versions of compiz? (i.e. Oneiric)

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

Old versions of AllTray won't work with Compiz due to the way that it works (and also even if it were to significantly change how it works, old AllTray hard-codes its behavior for Compiz, so it still won't change). The problem is that classic AllTray does not pass along XDnD events to the underlying application after it has reparented its window.

The newer versions of AllTray are not affected by this bug because it never reparents windows. However, there are a couple of bugs to try to work out; for example, it doesn't work 100% correctly with applications that are built on top of the Mozilla code base for some reason that I have yet to determine (and one very popular use-case for AllTray is to dock Thunderbird, for example). When I finally figure out the why and work around it, I'll be able to release 0.7.6dev, which will likely be (if no bugs are found) subsequently released as 0.8.0-rc1 and eventually 0.8.0.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Then I will mark Compiz as invalid. Thanks for the transparency.

[Tómas Aron Jónsson (2o-tomas-8c)]

I have the same bug, using alltray with "-nm" option works for me