[ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

[Alan Pope]

On 26/02/13 20:37, Liam Proven wrote:
> That's what, well, everyone I have ever seen using email in my life
> does. Drag and dropping messages onto an app icon? I am sorry, but
> WTAF? No!
>

At my previous job where Windows + Outlook was the desktop of choice 
I've seen plenty of people do what Tyler described. One of the nice 
features Windows has which I've never seen Linux desktops do nicely is 
dragging and dropping items from a non-focussed window onto the focussed 
window without focussing the non-focussed window.

So for me that would mean having a file manager window underneath an 
email composition window and dragging a file from the file manager into 
the email to attach it without losing focus on the email. It could also 
be used to drag emails into an email to attach it. This is arguably 
better than the method you describe because it enables you to add an 
attachment part way through a thread.

John: Hi Mary, Do you know what the sales were last week?
Mary: No, but Alan has it (cc:ed)
Alan: Here you go guys (drags email from archive into the thread and 
hits 'send').

The method you describe will initiate a new mail when you press 
'forward' whereas the scenario above will keep the attachment "in thread".

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
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