Binary package hint: pidgin
Usually pidgin asks, what to do with a file, when one drags something into the chat-window from nautilus' filemanager or desktop.
Pidgin does not do so when trying to drag a file from an NAS (connected via LAN and sharing via SMB, here) using gnome's nautilus.
I think this would give a great improvement to the usablility of NASes especially for using them as music- and photo-archives.
This might be a problem of nautilus, DBus, or something else. Or Pidgin can simply not handle the smb://-link.
I don't know, but I stumbled on this, while using pidgin, so I think, it is better to report it here than not to report it at all.
I am on Ubuntu gutsy, here. Nautilus is 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7 (gutsy), pidgin is 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4, as synaptic states.
I tried this with buddies using ICQ/AIM, only, because I do only have ICQ- and some jabber-using people in my contact-list.
Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?