Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachments in Evo?

[Jim McKean <jim mckeanco com>]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:57 +0000, Han Pilmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:06 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:43 -0400, Jim McKean wrote:
> > > I don't think I have received a pdf in the last 6 months that I can open
> > > inside Evolution.  It's rather annoying, because I get many a day and I
> > > usually only need to open and review the content in them, not save them.
> > > It is part of an approval workflow procesive s.
> >
> > It would help if you specified the Evolution version you're running, as
> > attachment handling underwent a major rewrite between 2.26 and 2.27.
> I had exactly the same issue on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.04 with Evolution
> 2.24. I don't think it happened immediately after I upgraded to
> Intrepid. But in any case my upgrade to Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 with
> Evolution 2.26 fixed the issue.
>
> Double clicking the saved files from Nautilus would start the correct
> application, so it appears to be something that was specific to
> Evolution.
>
> --
> Han Pilmeyer
> pilux_at_pilmeyer_dot_nl

Thanks, that's the first confirmation I have had that others have have
exactly the same problem.  

I don't want to use regular Ubuntu on my netbook -- I like it a lot on
full sized machines, but on my eeepc I am using a netbook distribution
based on Ubuntu called Easy Peasy.  I guess I will wait for their next
release which is due sometime soon.