[ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

[Will Tinsdeall]

On 28 February 2013 11:30, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> On 27 February 2013 19:02, Paula Graham <pmgazz at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 27/02/13 10:37, Alan Pope wrote:
>> > On 27/02/13 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
>> >> On 2013-02-27 09:18, Alan Pope wrote:
>> >>> 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.
>> >>
>> >> I'm describing the opposite. Drag an object from the maximised focused
>> >> window to a non-focused window.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yes, I got that, I was describing other further useful features that
>> > Windows has :)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> Many years ago, I used to do this in Outlook all the time - it's one of
>> the few features I've always missed. I never found a way of doing it in
>> TBird. I've lived without it for the 10 years I've been using Ubuntu
>> already ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I use Evolution (because it was the client in Warty when I started with
> Ubuntu) and I find I can drag and drop easily from Nautilus to a Compose
> Window.  I can also right click a file in Nautilus (the version in 12.04),
> select Sent To and choose Send as E-mail and the Evolution window comes up
> with the file as an attachment.  (Will this still work when I update to
> 14.04LTS, I wonder?)
>
> However, I am still more likely to use the add attachment function to pull
> the file into Evolution.
>
> Tony
>
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I use Evolution. I find it the most complete solution for all of my
organisational needs. I don't know why they decided to move away from it in
the default distro....

Will
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