On 28 February 2013 11:30, Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 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 > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > 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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