On 27 February 2013 19:02, Paula Graham <pmg...@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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