Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachment with an external viewer?

[Tony Lindstrom <tli tekla fi>]

On 18 Dec 2000 10:37:55 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > Should it be possible? And if it is, shouldn't it
> > be using the gnome document handler mime types?
>
> Yes, and it does. Right-click on the attachment icon to get a menu.
> (Not obvious, yes. Being fixed later.)

    Yes, I have tried it. But the "external viewer"-stuff is always
    greyed out. Maybe this is a problem with imap-folders? I
    haven't tried with mbox mails. I use only imap. 

> Well, you can save to disk and then open it with whatever you want.

    Yes, that's what I do now, but that's a clumsy method and it always
    leaves those stupid attachments in my home dir... ;-)

    I don't know if anybody of you developers are familiar with
    xfmail (or archimedes, the "gtk+-version" of xfmail, but it
    is still very preprealpha, and totaly unusable), but there
    are some very handy features and options which I have 
    learned to like and use and I would of course like to have
    them also in evoulution. But before that a prefer stableness.

    Hmm. One thing. When will size showing be possible with
    imap-folders? On a slow link it is a necessary feature as
    you wouldn't like to click on the message only to find out
    (after 10 minutes) that it has a 5 MB mpeg filed attached...

    (The worst thing is, that at least with my configuration the
    whole mailview crashes...)
     

> If we were going to have an "Open As" possibility, we'd need some sort
> of application picker dialog...

    Yes, but you could use it the same way xfmail does. It just
    uses the mime definitions. Of course you have to "kludge" 
    a little bit. Adding something like applications/msword-2
    linked to another application etc. Hmm, it's not very elegant,
    but it works!

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