(In reply to Bob G from comment #67) > (In reply to Kai Engert [:KaiE:] from comment #66) > > As said, implementing the detaching operation isn't trivial. > > I asked the developer of fairemail to add this feature and the day after it > was implemented > > it's open source, if needed...
Speaking as someone who has worked in the innards of Thunderbird, literally in the part of its code-base that would need to be changed to support this functionality… It is likely that the reason why this was easy for fairemail to implement is because fairemail is not burdened with a decades-old C++ code-base which was over-engineered to begin with, has accumulated layer upon layer of cruft and hacks, and is enmeshed in a tangled web of dependencies which ensure that even a trivial change to it could have unanticipated, unintended consequences elsewhere in the app. I 100% want the TB devs to fix this problem, but I do not think it is fair to doubt them when they say it isn't trivial to solve. -- 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/303140 Title: No more "Save all" / "detach all" / "delete all" for attachments Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird After receiving an email with more than one attachment, I have to open/detach/save them one by one, cause "Save all" / "detach all" / "delete all" in the GUI are not available This happens since version 2.0.0.18 1) Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Release: 8.04 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 2) Package: Linux-Mint 5 3) "Save all" / "detach all" / "delete all" available when right- klicking on an attachment 4 )"Save all" / "detach all" / "delete all" greyed out, so not available ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Nov 28 11:34:16 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.18+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/303140/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
