Re: [patch] part popups, simplified attachment navigation

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2004.06.12 16:14 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dreß:
> 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...

Nevertheless - great choice *hehe*

> > 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).

No everything is okay - I was only confused by he fact that both of them  
are displayed in the attachment popup (as they 'should' have the same  
content ;) <- I love some mailers not doing so...

> > 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?

just checked - yes, you are right (shame on me...)


> 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...

yes, we should - does gdk-pixbuff support this or will this be the step to  
a bonobo-container for eog, gthumb, abiword, gpdf, gnome-gv and gnumeric  
content...? :)

> Cheers, Albrecht.


cu
/Steffen

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