1097608 - need choice of copy email text with formatting or without

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Jim Michaels]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141105223254

Steps to reproduce:

clicked in email text of something I wrote. due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1076465 at a certain point near the end it auto-reduces the font sizes on me while I am typing.
ctrl-a ctrl-c [window-logo-flag-key]-R wordpad [Enter] ctrl-v


Actual results:

pasted as plain text, no formatting.


Expected results:

should have a choice of copying to clipboard with formatting and images or without formatting and images.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I'm not sure we'd do this. Typically, the choice whether to use formatting or not is offered in the paste step, not the copoy step.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

What do you think?

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot 1: Formatted text with image after pasting into WordPad and Libre Office Writer

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #2)

What do you think?

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)

I'm not sure we'd do this. Typically, the choice whether to use formatting
or not is offered in the paste step, not the copy step.

Agreed. That's common practice, have never seen anything else.
Deciding the format when copying is an unnecessary burden.
In this case, it would not even solve reporter's problem.

(In reply to Jim Michaels from comment #0)

Steps to reproduce:

clicked in email text of something I wrote. due to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1076465 at a certain point near
the end it auto-reduces the font sizes on me while I am typing.
ctrl-a ctrl-c [window-logo-flag-key]-R wordpad [Enter] ctrl-v

Actual results:
pasted as plain text, no formatting.

So reporter copied some formatted text with images from Thunderbird into Windows WordPad, where it came out as plain text.

Expected results:
should have a choice of copying to clipboard with formatting and images or
without formatting and images.

Formatting and images are available in the clipboard flavors after copying formatted text from Thunderbird. It's WordPad which cannot handle the formatted flavor of TB (probably HTML). Other applications like Libre Office Writer can (see screenshot). So the expected result wouldn't solve reporter's problem.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

WONTFIX per my comment 3.