Re: HTML document "attachment" icon

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

> >a) because its standard gnome icon
> >b) its lighter to port from one mailer to another because you get
> >   the same symbols
> 
> I think you missed the point of the patch - I don't do anything with
> multipart messages - they still use the (gnome) paper clip icon.  The
> only thing I changed was messages of content-type text/html, which are
> currently marked with a paper clip, but with the patch are marked with
> a document icon, which I based on a netsc*pe icon, because there was no
> suitable gnome icon available.  Unless you want to make each line in
> the message list large enough to hold the 48x48 gnome-html icon.

oki and what will be showed if you get HTML email that contains a normal
attachment ? what icon will be shown then ? the html one or the attachment
one ? or both :)

> In any case, it's not the icon I am concerned about, it's *not* having
> a paper clip on text/html messages.  These messages do not have an
> attachement, and it's not appropriate to mark them as such.  I would
> still like to see them marked in some fashion, to distinguish them from
> plain text messages.

i recommend you use the old ENVELOPE icon that you still find in an older
balsa source tree. this was the old multipart icon, maybe you could use that
one for HTML since it comes closest to it.

but all in all, why do we want to shot HTML content as attachment at all ?
wouldn't it be better to have an option in the prefs, so we can choose of
'show HTML message instead text if present' or
'show only TEXT message and forget HTML'

so we dont care. if we reply and select TEXT only and strip HTML as present
in the current prefs, we never figure out that we got a html crappy mail.

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