Re: [patch] part popups, simplified attachment navigation

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 12.06.04 11:30 schrieb(en) Steffen Klemer:
> Tried it and like it ;) (nice icon btw :)

Great, thanks a lot... but the icon is gnome-stock...

> Is it right that all multipart/alternative parts of one group are shown  
> (e.g. the txt _and_ html version of the same part in a msg sent with  
> outlook express?)

Does balsa *display* both parts by default? This would be incorrect -  
depending upon the selection in the prefs, balsa should either display the  
"highest quality" (?) one in the alternative group, or the text/plain part  
if you selected to ignore html crap. They should, however, be both visible  
in the attachments popup as well as on the 2nd notebook tab - just in case  
you want to switch between them, and their "section level" should be the  
same (e.g. 1.1 and 1.2).

> On the other side I got a mail from Netscape 7.1 (win xp) with
>
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="------------090501000605040907060404"
>
> I see the text with all 3 pictures marked in the source as
>
> --------------090501000605040907060404
> Content-Type: image/jpeg;
> name="Ritterlicher Adler- und Falkenhof 016.jpg"
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filename="Ritterlicher Adler- und Falkenhof 016.jpg"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> But the clippy in the corner is not shown.

Checked with a similar message, coming from MacOS X's Mozilla, but the  
engine below is the same. The images are quite large, and the resulting  
message body box is wider than the container. Therefore, I get a scroll  
bar at the bottom. Unfortunately, this also expands the header box, so the  
attachments button is outside the initially visibile area. Maybe there is  
the same effect with your messsage?

IMHO we should think about shrinking images to the width of the  
surrounding container, as this will be the effect the user usually wants -  
unfortunately, people tend to blindly attach multi-MB, 2 kpixel wide  
stuff, and balsa now will display only a fraction of it...

Cheers, Albrecht.


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