Ability to send multiple files

[darhma]

I agree that the ability to send multiple attachments in a single message would be a great thing, but apparently it is not easy to implement:

Feature Proposal: Multiple Attachments in one message

Hello, first of all: I love the deltachat & i think it is really good work so far! If it only would have been there before all that WhatsApp Nonsense ! I am really determinend to convince more and more of my friends to switch to it, because it’s the best greatest common divisor of all IMs. So now my Feature Proposal. I’ve scanned through the ‘List of Feature Proposals’ but I couldn’t explicitly find the one that bothers me the most: Sending multiple attachments in one messag…

Multiple images in one message

Expected behavior Multiple images can be selected to be sent at once. They are then displayed as a small gallery in the chat history, similar to Telegram or WhatsApp. Actual behavior Only one image can be selected and sent at a time. Explanation Users often want to send multiple images. Unfortunately, it is very tedious if you can only send them individually. They also need a lot of space in the chat history. Therefore it would be good if you could send several at once and then show them comp…