Launcher - Dragging and dropping a file directly on to the Thunderbird or Evolution Launcher icons should open a new email with the file attached

Bug #784435 reported by François Tissandier
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Committed
Medium
John Lea
Unity
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned
evolution (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Desired functionality:

Dragging and dropping a file directly on to the Thunderbird or Evolution Launcher icons should open a new email with the file attached.

Tags: udo udp
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Interesting idea, lets open a Unity task.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
summary: - Drag & drop a file on the Unity launcher should create a new email with
- the attached file
+ Dragging and dropping a file directly on to the Thunderbird or Evolution
+ Launcher icons should open a new email with the file attached
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: udo
Revision history for this message
Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote : Re: Dragging and dropping a file directly on to the Thunderbird or Evolution Launcher icons should open a new email with the file attached

The evolution and thunderbird desktop files need to be modified to support this.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity-design:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
affects: unity → null
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udp
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
no longer affects: null
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → none
John Lea (johnlea)
summary: - Dragging and dropping a file directly on to the Thunderbird or Evolution
- Launcher icons should open a new email with the file attached
+ Launcher - Dragging and dropping a file directly on to the Thunderbird
+ or Evolution Launcher icons should open a new email with the file
+ attached
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
no longer affects: unity-design
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Medium
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Medium
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de) wrote :

11.04?? not longer supported
change status to invalid

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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