Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Pilot: Fatal alert]

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom nooper com>]

Would be nice to have a config option in general to say always show me
XXXXXX if available (where XXXXX is a choice of auto, plain/text
html/text etc). In this case that option doesn't really help unless the
user says html/text here... Personally, I'd mostly leave this switched
to plain/text.

Next perhaps always try and show the user the richest format that you
support and that they want (with above config switch). I guess this is
not really following the standard in the tradition of showing last part
first, but it would have solved this particular case as html would have
been displayed.

Then perhaps another i/f option maybe on the right mouse button which
lets the user view the other alternative parts. Ie, if viewing a message
with alternative parts of html or plain. the menu could read.

        Alternative Part -> plain
                            html

This mightn't work too well for an embeded forwarded messages though as
the menu probably refers to the main message. Hmm. Perhaps a UI
component of some kind (button/drop down box/ other) would make sense
close to where the headers are displayed. It could let you select the
other alternative parts for display.

Just some ideas.

Tom.

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:11, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> If you take a look at the message source, you'll find that the message
> is a multipart/alternativewhich means that there are several
> "alternative" views of the same[1] message body which are listed in
> reverse preference order (last part is the most preferred, first part is
> the least preferred).
>
> What a mail client is supposed to do is show the *last* part which it is
> capable of displaying, which is exactly what Evolution is doing.
>
> I don't know what can be done as obviously it would not be good to show
> the user all versions of the body (imagine reading multiple copies of
> the same message all in a row - we'd probably get thousands of bug
> reports about a bug in evolution that showed multiple copies of the same
> message).
>
> [1] obviously, the content *does* differ. usually you'll have 1 version
> in text/html format and one in text/plain (and possibly one in
> text/richtext or text/enriched or something).
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 20:43, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > The attached message shows up blank in my copy of Evolution 1.2.1.  I
> > get a lot of messages from that particular list which show up blank in
> > evolution, but are readable in kmail.  Any ideas?
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Thomas O'Dowd <tom nooper com>
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