Bug#296255: konqueror: Drag and drop of file to Thunderbird is broken

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

reassign 296255 mozilla-thunderbird
stop here

  (Hi Alexander, we received this bug against konqueror, but it seems to
  me that Thunderbird is at fault here. Please reassign back if my
  reasoning below is bogus.)

* Michal J. Gajda [Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:51:15 +0100]:
> Package: konqueror
> Version: 4:3.3.2-1
> Severity: normal

> When file is dragged from Konqueror window (or desktop) to Thunderbird
> window, then instead of the attachment, the URL is added.
> Nautilus gets it correctly in the same context.

  Let's see. When I drag a file (e.g., an image) from Konqueror to the
  Compose window of Thunderbird, two things can happen:

    (a) that I drop it in the textarea, in which case the URL of the
        file is pasted (what you experience).

    (b) that I drop it in the upper half of the window. Just by having
        the dragged file hover there, the Attachments entry list
        appears, and when I drop it the file gets added to there.

  However, when _sending_ such message, Thunderbird spits out the
  following: "There was a problem including the file <name> in the
  message. Would you like to continue sending the message without this
  file?"

  The strange thing is that if I right click in the file in the
  Attachments list, and I select 'Open', the file is opened correctly,
  which leads to think that Thunderbird has the right URL.

  I am a little puzzled by all this, any insight welcome.

  Thanks,

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