Re: [Evolution-hackers] GSoC Ideas

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 18:18 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 17:21 +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> >                 2) Attachment Detach and Link function
>
> This one, from my point of view, doesn't qualify for a GSoC project,
> basically because it's "only" a serialization of two actions, which
> might not make anybody busy for couple weeks. Also, as Andre mentioned
> on the evolution-list, those "detached" attachments might not be
> available, if you move to other machine (supposing you'll move the
> attachment on a remote protocol, like IMAP, Exchange related, and so
> on), thus the link to it will be relevant only on one machine, and only
> until user actually deletes the file (or even better until overwrites it
> with a content from other attachment, which may then just confuse
> him/her, even unintentionally and being done by the user him/her-self).
>
> It doesn't mean that it cannot live as a bug request, for someone whom
> would like to play a bit with the code, it's just that it's too simple
> for a GSoC project, from my point of view.

I agree.  I think it would be sufficient to just prompt to save the
attachments before permanently removing them.  The prompt would also
double as an "are you sure?" check to help avoid accidents.

Matthew Barnes