TB3 - Drag & Drop - Bug 484667

[Philipp Ross]

Hi,

the following bug unfortunately prevents me from upgrading to TB3 as we
depend on the ability to drag attachments as well as mails to custom
applications which works well with Thunderbird version 2:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484667

The bug was already fixed and now I am wondering which version of
Thunderbird will be released with the bug fix applied. In version 3.0.1
as well as Lanikai Alpha 1 the bug still exists. Can anyone please tell
me which version is expected to contain the patch?

Best regards,
Phil

[Ron K.]

Philipp Ross on 2/9/2010 3:42 AM, keyboarded a reply:

From the Bug I saw the patch was landed Dec 19, 2009 so it is in Lanikai.
If You still see the issue, file a new bug and ref the prior bug. There
might be a regression. Also CC the person who did the original patch work.
Do describe clear steps for how You produce the bug. Quality bug reports
improve the chances for fixing.

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[phil]

On 2/9/2010 12:23 PM, Ron K. wrote:
> Philipp Ross on 2/9/2010 3:42 AM, keyboarded a reply:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the following bug unfortunately prevents me from upgrading to TB3 as
>> we depend on the ability to drag attachments as well as mails to
>> custom applications which works well with Thunderbird version 2:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484667
>>
>> The bug was already fixed and now I am wondering which version of
>> Thunderbird will be released with the bug fix applied. In version
>> 3.0.1 as well as Lanikai Alpha 1 the bug still exists. Can anyone
>> please tell me which version is expected to contain the patch?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Phil
>
> From the Bug I saw the patch was landed Dec 19, 2009 so it is in
> Lanikai. If You still see the issue, file a new bug and ref the prior
> bug. There might be a regression. Also CC the person who did the
> original patch work. Do describe clear steps for how You produce the
> bug. Quality bug reports improve the chances for fixing.
>
>

I see the Lanikai is gecko 1.9.2 and from the
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/tags it appears that Aug 13 is
listed as the date for tag GECKO_1_9_2_base.

[phil]

The patch was tested with mspaint and notepad. It uses a timer to
delete the temp file so how well it will work with other programs would
be nice to know. However, you may have to install a nightly
'experimental' version of thunderbird to get the feature.

[JoeS]

Yes, the fix was checked into Gecko 1.9.3
To get the benefit you would have to use Thunderbird 3.2
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/
Please the description of the various builds at the "binary builds" link in my sig
But for all intent and purposes 3.0 3.1 and 3.2 are 99% identical for the TB code.
I maintain, and update nightly all 3 builds, and post any significant problems here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1733745
If there are any huge problems, you will see them discussed there.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Binaries

[Philipp Ross]

> Yes, the fix was checked into Gecko 1.9.3
> To get the benefit you would have to use Thunderbird 3.2
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/

Thanks for the info. I have tested the nightly build of 3.2 and noticed
that drag & drop is now working as expected again.

I will just have to wait for 3.2 to be released as I am afraid of
installing something called "Shredder" in a production environment. ;-)

[Ron Hunter]

I always thought that was a poor choice for a code name for an
email/news client... Bad connotations.

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