Re: [Evolution] Dragging links to the composer window broken in 1.5?

["Thomas J. Baker" <tjb unh edu>]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:07 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > Can anyone else drag a link from a web browser to a composer window and
> > have the link appear? I just get the text of the link. This used to work
> > in Evo 1.4.x/gtkhtml-3.0.x (just like dragging a link to a gnome-
> > terminal except that evo would also activate it as a link and make it
> > the link color).
>
> Evolution doesn't make it a link (at least for plain text mails). It
> just displays anything that "looks like" an URL in blue. That's the
> Composer part. (Haven't used 1.4 for long now and never used HTML
> format, so the former might not be 100% correct.)
>
> Displaying (reading) mails is similar: Anything that "looks like" a link
> will be displayed blue and for the users convenience a clickable link.
> Text/plain does not know hyperlinks...
>
>
> That said: Yes, seems like the Composer is broken in this respect.
>
>
> > I bugzilla'd it but it was marked as a wishlist instead of a bug, which
> > seems a little strange to me.
>
> What is the bug really about? Which number? From your first sentence, it
> felt like a wish to me too: Inserting links (different url/title) in
> HTML mails.
>
> ...guenther

Bug is http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=59893 and I've
attached screen shots to make it more clear. 

tjb
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