Re: [Evolution] Attaching images (with no preview)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:27 +0100, Bob Goodson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 12:30 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 14:29 +0000, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: 
> > > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 14:07 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote:
> > > > I'm a newbie.  I recently converted to Ubuntu and am a creative more
> > > > than a techie, so please be gentle on me. :-)
> > > Welcome to Evolution... :)
> > > > Here's the problem:
> > > > When composing a mail in Evolution, I click on on "add attachment" at
> > > > the bottom of the window.  I then navigate to, say, my pictures
> > > > folder.  I am presented with a list of file names and no preview
> > > > window.  Unless I have memorised the file name of the image, how will
> > > > I know what the image is, if there is no preview window?  Only after
> > > > I've attached the image, do I see the thumbnail in the attachment bar.
> I'm also a newbie and what I do is Places/Pictures/ then select the
> photo I want to email, right click on it, then on the "Send As.." drop
> down menu/select "email"/fill in  the email address in "Send To" and Evo
> does the rest,
> Maybe the guys  here will say I.m wrong but I've just done it 

No, that works.  I do the same all the time.

Either that or dragging into the message window.

Both are easier, in almost any case, than using a file-chooser for
attaching a document.
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Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA
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