impossible to drag&drop attachment from a message to a new message

[Oded Arbel]

Binary package hint: evolution

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.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 20 19:30:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599190

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this has been fixed upstream at: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-28&id=e14ec8882808dd938a1edbfcadd399a4f20e1569

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.28.2-1ubuntu1

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evolution (2.28.2-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Resync on Debian
  * New upstream version:
    Bug Fixes:
    - #271836 - Incorrect signature for "model_cell_changed" signal handler
    - #397265 - Image loading for new contact requires restarting Evolution
    - #411768 - Drag and drop header columns (lp: #344373)
    - #468736 - Prevent recursion in em-format
    - #474502 - Don't check for contacts in broken address books
    - #551464 - Paste files into composer as attachments
    - #551603 - Special case "positive zero alarms"
    - #554779 - Removal of task due date does not sync from Palm
    - #555901 - Preserve Start/End/Due timezone when editing in list view
    - #557613 - evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in try_open_e_book_cb
                (lp: #287136)
    - #570835 - Custom e-mail headers inserted with double column
    - #590127 - Define ETable::vertical-spacing style property
    - #596027 - In Anjal, although invalid mail address warning popup, mail's
                tab closed automatically
    - #596566 - Crash on quit with composer window opened (lp: #438382)
    - #596827 - Don't remove meeting attendees after edit
    - #597582 - Original Date: header should be given precedence
    - #599124 - Signature always includes an empty line in front of text
                (lp: #456220)
    - #599190 - Drag and drop broken for received MIME parts (lp: #456690)
    - #599245 - Use bitwise AND instead of logical AND for checking flags
    - #599627 - Crash when adding a new task in a table
    - #599792 - Anjal composer's Send button doesn't work after pressed Save
                Drafts button
    - #599882 - Crash in em_folder_tree_select_prev_path() when wrapping to
                bottom
    - #600132 - Direct print from composer fails when special characters used
    - #600133 - Crash on day view print preview without all day events
                (lp: #464197)
    - #601202 - Evo deletes system addressbook
    - #601218 - Accepted meeting doesn't show attachments in calendar view
    - #601219 - Transient dialogs in composer window blocks main window
    - #601644 - Disable rename for system folders
    Other Changes:
    Synchronize with attachment logic in Evolution 2.29.
    Improve comments: widgets/misc/e-filter-bar.c
    [PATCH] Output an error message on system filter rules loading error
    Use same macro name for consistency
    Add mail_component_show_status_bar
    Explicitly dllimport/export comp_editor_registry on Windows
    Support other forward types for Anjal.
    Sync to disk the outbox, since if we crash, we endup sending mail again.
    Add support for Googlemail and hotmail/live/msn.com accounts.
    Translations
  * debian/control:
    - Build-Depends on liblpint-bonobo-dev for the lpi patch
    - conflicts, replaces, provides the previous documentation binaries
    - don't Build-Depends on libgnomeprint2.2-dev, libgnomeprintui2.2-dev
    - don't build depends on pilot-link it's not required
    - don't split documentation since it goes to langpacks
    - don't use po-debconf there either
    - evolution replaces evoluti...