Attachments needs better UX

[jkudish]

Attachments are currently wonky in a number of ways, there's room for improvement:

• In addition to drag-and-drop, there should be a normal/typical upload button
• There should be some feedback when you drop a file that it is being uploaded and when it's done uploading
• The "drop" zone should be better defined. For example, I dropped a file where it says "Drop a file in the message to attach it" and that wasn't part of the drop zone. At the very least, the entire "conversation" box should be part of the drop zone.
• The URL generated for uploaded files, doesn't work for me at all.
• The full name of files should be given (e.g. with the extension vs. just the filename) once uploaded. Example: image1 vs. image.jpg, making it easier to scan through the list of files.

Nice to have but probably not for v1:

• A small thumbnail should be available for image files
• An icon could appear for each other file type, e.g. a PDF icon can be used for PDFs, a document icon for Word docs, etc...
• Attachments could go in their own metabox, making it easier to find/scan them, especially if there's a lot

[danielbachhuber]

The URL generated for uploaded files, doesn't work for me at all.

What was the URL generated, and what happened instead?

[jkudish]

What was the URL generated, and what happened instead?

The generated URL was http://localdev/sp-plugin/secure-files/7470d3211af40cddd346bf0cb81e1eec/wp.png; localdev/sp-plugin being the home_url for my test site. The result is a 404

[danielbachhuber]

Can you debug a bit further and figure out why it doesn't work?

[jkudish]

sure will do later

[danielbachhuber]

Bumping this issue to v0.2

[VarunAgw]

@iandunn It is finished and should be closed.

[iandunn]

Implementing the 3.5 media uploader in 83df05407b4ae48db7ea89fda579dce327ef2464 fixed the first set of issues, but the second set are still valid. Let's leave this open for now.