If I can chime in with a comment to the developers (if anyone is listening here): I am used to never use drag and drop of attachment on TB now, given the really broken behavior.
Suggestion: ditch the thing completely. Remove drag and drop. For good. It's so broken it is more a danger(1) than any other thing, and it is not so necessary in the end, you can live with "save as..." and company. I suppose that a bug like that not fixed in 7 years means it's too complex to fix; let's accept it and move on. Leaving an half-baked functionality is much worse than not having it. (1) because sometime it *seems* to work; it creates an icon from which the content is not accesible at all, and can lead to data loss for unsuspecting users. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381017 Title: Cannot drag attachment from mail attachment pane to desktop Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Triaged Status in SeaMonkey: all-in-one Internet application suite: Confirmed Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu 9.04 Gnome Desktop 2.26.1 Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 This is regression introduced in Jaunty as it works in Intrepid. Dragging an attachment from the attachment pane to the desktop give the following error: == Error while copying There was an error getting information about "fetch>UID>.voicemail>1784". The specified location is not supported == Mail account is IMAP. This error was shown to seb128 and asac. The expected behavior is that the file is copied to the destination onto which it is dragged. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/381017/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
