Re: [Evolution] Beta 1 test

[Timo Sirainen <tss iki fi>]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 23:04, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Mail
> > - When i am not connected to Internet (but I am not on of line mode) i
> > have a message box saying that Evolution could not retrieve mail with
> > only one button "Close". May be we could have a second button "Work of
> > line" in this message box to switch into the Of-Line mode. 
>
> too complicated to do. it's a generic exception reporting system, it has
> no idea why it failed it just know it failed and so throws up a dialog.
>
> The back-end is what sets the exceptions, but it doesn't know anything
> about "going offline" and wouldn't have any way of adding this button
> anyway.

"No network connection" seems pretty common exception to me, I'd think
it would be worth having special behaviour.

> > - Strange but i can have only 70-80 characters per line in text mode
> > even if the window if larger. Work fine in HTML mode. Is it the normal
> > behavior?
>
> yes, this is intended behaviour. the many mail related specifications
> strongly urge that clients wrap at 72 characters to support older mail
> clients that apparently use an ~80 byte buffer to read lines and also
> for console clients that use an 80-character-wide screen.

Couldn't this be made optional? This isn't really issue with normal
emails, but sometimes I want to copy&paste longer lines (eg. a couple of
lines from log files) where wrapping just makes it more difficult for
receiver to read it. Making it an attachment would work of course, but
if I wanted to put comments between the lines, the whole mail would
basically be in the attachment which would be stupid.

Format menu could have Wrapless-toggle which would show and send the
lines without any wrapping at all, so it might show horizontal scrollbar
as well.