Re: [Evolution] suggestion for an enhancement on saving attachments

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 14:02, mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please find below some ideas ive had with future enhancements for evo:
>
> 1.Ive noticed that when you go to save an attachment, and you don't wont
> to save in directly in '/home/user-name/', but you browse to the
> selected location, say '/home/user-name/tmp' it removed the name of the
> file.
>
> It would be very helpful if you could just browse to the selected folder
> and then click save.
>
> This would then keep the original name of the attachment, re entering
> the attachment name is fine on small titles, but say you have a large
> name, it can be difficult to remember what its called

It's a gtk bug; we've fixed it anyway in packages we should be releasing
soon to Red Carpet. Whether or not the upstream maintainers accept the
patch is still an open question, I believe.

> 2. To be able to attach more than one file in the same directory at the
> same time, buy say holding down the shift key.
> As at present you have to keep pressing the attach icon, and if the
> files you require are buried beep in the directory tree this can get a
> little frustrating at times

This is also a gtk issue; we can probably pass this onto our gtk hackers
to take a look at but I have no idea if this is doable within the
current file selector API.
Luis

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Luis Villa
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