[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2021-10-13 Thread Steve Langasek
The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2017-10-13 Thread Andrea Azzarone
Ubuntu 17.10 will ship with Gnome Shell by default. Given this, we do not plan to work on this bug anymore. Closing. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** No longer affect

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2014-10-28 Thread Mathew Hodson
** Tags removed: regression ** Tags added: regression-release -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression] To manage notifi

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2012-12-22 Thread Hendrik Knackstedt
** Tags added: precise regression -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression] To manage notifications about this bug go to

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2012-08-14 Thread Omer Akram
** Changed in: unity Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression] To manage notificatio

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2012-05-08 Thread Joël Schaerer
Do we know *why* Thunderbird is doing things differently from other applications? Is it a bug in Thunderbird? Has anyone tried talking to the Thunderbird devs? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2012-05-08 Thread jeroenl
There is a simple workaround. - Copy /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications - Edit thunderbird.desktop - Change the MimeType option to: "MimeType=text/*;application/*;image/*;audio/*;video/*;x-scheme-handler/mailto;" (without quotes) This will make Thunderbi

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows[regression]

2012-04-24 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Ok, I discussed with Andrea on IRC, the thunderbird issue is different since they don't use "text/uri-list", fixing the "should be able to drop on any icon" is not enough for that one, I undupped bug #880798 and I'm using this one for the "should allow to drop on any launcher icon" ** Summary chan

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-03-28 Thread Mossroy
Will the 12.04 LTS really lack this basic Drag and drop feature? See also some related issues : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/754580 (can not move firefox tabs betwwen firefox windows) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/607796 (window applications do not spread when

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-03-23 Thread madurax86
the disabling of the unity launcher when it "detects" an unsupported data type is just not usable in practise, theoretically it may be useful but bossing users around is not what a good interface should actually do! In my usecase, "drag and drop a selecteed text content to another program" fails so

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-03-21 Thread David Barth
** Tags added: hitlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-03-15 Thread Robert Hrovat
Whoa, I have just realized this bug is a showstopper for my company. We have a QT news writing app which relies heavily on drag and drop (photos, audio clips...) to news items. So with Unity, it is impossible to do that :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-21 Thread Andrea Azzarone
*we can easily do it -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-21 Thread Andrea Azzarone
Mark, we can easily do but we have another problem (bug #607796). By the way we need a list of bugs that should be fixed to enable again the "spread on dragging and holding." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

Re: [Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Andrea, we should allow you to drag to ANY window of ANY running app via the launcher. Using the mime types as a way to guide the user to *likely* apps is fine, but don't stop me from hovering over another app and opening that apps windows so I can JFDI. Mark -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-21 Thread Felix Möller
I just realize there are actually two problems: 1. The launcher does not even show when trying to drag a mail from thunderbird 2. The launcher shows when trying to drag a file, however then thunderbird icon is disabled then -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-21 Thread Andrea Azzarone
@Mark, right now we show the launcher as soon as a dnd start and we have the text/uri-list info. Should we remove second (text/uri-list) constraint? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167

Re: [Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
It should not be a restriction - it should be guidance to make it easier to spot the likely targets, but it should not preclude you dragging anything to anything else. Tim, can we have an update on the importance / situation of this? Mark -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2012-02-20 Thread poikiloid
I completely agree with matteo. This is really terrible design (this new mime-type restriction of unity launchers). It may seem "cool" for about 2 seconds, until you realize what a huge hindrance it actually is. I like to drag files to the terminal window so that the path to a file (or directory

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-12-10 Thread matteo sisti sette
Another example of why confusing icons of applications to be launched with icons of existing windows is wrong: you should be able to do these as two different actions, both useful in different situations: A. drag an object over the icon of an open window, so the window is brought to front, and th

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-12-10 Thread matteo sisti sette
Indeed when dragging something into the icon of an application which is open, it should ALWAYS bring up the window, no matter what you are dragging and no matter whether the app is supposed to be able to handle it or not. I don't think it's a regression; though I only used 11.04 for a very short w

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-12-01 Thread Andrea Azzarone
@dbarth: I think that the fist part of this bug "Thunderbird launcher icon doesn't highlights during email dnd" is not a regression. [*] In Oneiric the drag and drop data is detected as soon as the drag and drop starts and not when the mouse enters the launcher input window. [*] We can only handl

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-12-01 Thread David Barth
@thumper: mentioned in the description, it is not specific to Thunderbird. which means that a test could be automated with something simpler than Thunderbird if needed. @andyrock: please note that this is a /regression/ so I think you should look into the history of the code that handles dnd to se

Re: [Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Tim Penhey
Mark, is this with thunderbird 8? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression] To manage notifications about this bug go t

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Azzarone
Well, as imagined Thunderbird doesn't use text/uri-list to share dnd data. I get this data: = - text/x-moz-message * i - text/x-moz-url * i - _NETSCAPE_URL * imap://azzaronea%40gmail%2e...

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Azzarone
@Seb, I can investigate... ** Changed in: unity Assignee: (unassigned) => Andrea Azzarone (andyrock) ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Andrea Azzarone (andyrock) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
thanks Andrea, do you know what is needed to fix the first issue? is that a tb bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regres

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Azzarone
This bug can be divided into: [*] Thunderbird launcher icon doesn't highlights during email dnd [*] Bug #607796 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails betwee

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Ok, andyrock says that's basically bug #607796, the feature was turned off because buggy, it's part of the ux backlog bugs than dx will work on fixing this cycle -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
it's already set to "High" which seems a reasonable status, it's rather "let's find somebody in dx to take on this one" ;-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag em

Re: [Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Let's bump up the importance of this one! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression] To manage notifications about this

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-30 Thread Jan Krčál
In fact, it affects all applications where the functionality depends on _where_ you drop the content. E.g. - attaching files in gmail, - setting downloaded images as cover photos in banshee, - dragging files to "Open File" dialogs. With two maximized apps, when dragging content from one to

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-29 Thread dimovnike
Yes this is really annoying and as far as I remember this worked in 11.04. And it seems to be not only the thunderbird affected. It also affects nautilus, i.e. it doesn't raise all nautilus windows so I can choose where to drop the file but instead, when i release the mouse button it opens a new na

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-11-06 Thread Joël Schaerer
Any idea when this will be fixed? This would be a top usability improvement. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873167 Title: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

[Bug 873167] Re: Cannot drag emails between Thunderbird windows [regression]

2011-10-24 Thread Omer Akram
** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau