why does the drag'n'drop support always change - e-mail client?

why does the drag'n'drop support always change - e-mail client?

I have been using Opera with its e-mail client for some time now - since Opera 5 or 6 I guess. During this time support for dragndrop e-mail attachments into a compose e-mail window has changed innumerable times, basically with each new version (sometimes sub-version) it got enabled or disabled, depending on previous status. Sometimes I would select several files and only one of them would be attached via dragndrop. Other times all of them would be attached. And yet at other times no file at all would be attached. Why does it keep changing? Right now if I drag the files from a browser window into the compose e-mail window, not the attachments area in the upper right corner, I get a dialog prompting me for uploading the files to opera:.. and if I choose ok all I get is the file paths appended into the e-mail body as text. How is this useful?

I do love Opera - the browser and the e-mail client as well, there is no other e-mail client that gets along with my 15 GB+ of e-mails that I want to keep as well as Opera - but honestly is there nobody actually checking this? I can not imagine they would make these changes deliberately...

I can imagine the reasons for this happening (multiple OS's and so on) but still I would have thought there was some review of this feature. Or maybe it's just me who uses dragndrop to add file attachments to outgoing e-mails, maybe other users only add attachments from the usual dialog that requires you to browse through your (almost) entire directory structure every time you want to add an attachment.

Sorry for the rant, but I could not hold it in any longer.

By the way, I use Ubuntu 10.04 with the latest Opera version.

Originally posted by doi65535:

drag'n'drop support always change

Oh well.......... I didn't know it changed in some of the times.

When I have problem drag & drop so that I drop them inside the attachment box (at the right top during compose mode)

I got some time problem with Opera doesn't allow me drop into the compose area so I do that as above stated.

Thank you
edmond

On Win7 with Opera 12.10, I:

* Pressed ctrl + M to open a compose tab.

* Selected two files on my desktop.

* Dragged them to Opera's taskbar button to focus Opera's window.

* Dragged them over the top of the body (plain text body if it matters) and dropped them.

Result: Both files were attached.

Dropping in the attachment area works too.

So, things seem to be working for me.

There were some builds where things were broken. But, that was because Opera recently added drag-n-drop support for web pages and it caused some regressions.

Not sure about linux though.

Bizarrely, I find (in Opera 12.02, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit) that I can sometimes drag a file from an Explorer window into the attachment box (paper clip) and sometimes not. Just now I tried it with blank e-mails in two different Opera windows, and it worked fine. And then I tried it in another Opera window and it failed. I opened a new window with the exact same tabs as the window that failed, created a blank e-mail, and drag-and-drop worked. Somehow that one particular window doesn't want to allow it. Same files, same other tabs, same everything. No private windows or tabs involved. Arbitrary and incomprehensible.