1120152 - Dragging a mail or attachment to/from Thunderbird indicates move, not copy

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Roland Illig]

Attachment: mouse-cursors.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I started Thunderbird. In the list of mails, I started dragging one mail to the Windows desktop.


Actual results:

The dragging mouse cursor shows just a rectangle. This means to _move_ the mail to the desktop, so it will be deleted in Thunderbird. To be confident that the mail doesn’t get deleted in Thunderbird I have to press Ctrl during dragging, which shows the [+] overlay on the mouse cursor.


Expected results:

The dragging mouse cursor should have the [+] overlay to indicate copying.

Comment 1

[Roland Illig]

Attachment: mouse cursor while dragging into mail window.png

The same happens when I drag something into a new mail being composed in Thunderbird. This should not be "Move" like in the image, but "Copy".

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks Roland, indeed, mouse pointers should always indicate the actual action correctly, so it should have a [+] icon when copying (vs. moving).

Richard, can you look into this?

Comment 3

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Yes, confirmed, drag and drop from or to TB should always indicate the copy function.

Comment 4

[Roland Illig]

When I drag a large attachment from Thunderbird to the desktop, a Windows dialog opens that also says "Moving files". I expect that this will be fixed automatically when the icon changes, but it should be tested as well.