Re: [Evolution] Can't save pictures; Can't forward pictures

[timothy covell <tczhishen gmail com>]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 11:49 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 05:45 -0500, timothy covell wrote:
> > This worked.  So, Evolution doesn't recognize my "forward as new"
> > e-mail as being HTML and defaults to TXT which clobbers the 
> > pictures....Hmm.  Perhaps it would be nice to prompt the user
> > "This message contains HTML. Would you like to send as HTML or
> > plain text (Sending as plain text will result in loss of images
> > and formatting).  Yes/No"
> >
> >
> > FYI: I did a <CTRL>-U and found that the images were indeed 
> > local to the HTML file (which the up/down-load times had told
> > me already.  
> >
> >
> > I'll submit this as a bug.
>
>       Hi,
> it's not a bug, Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences, General tab,
> Format Messages in HTML. But, to be honest, Not everyone likes HTML, and
> prefers plain text mails.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

I do prefer plain text.  But, a fundamental rule of program design is
that an app should do what the user expects.  When I have received an
HTML mail and I try to forward, I EXPECT it to forward as HTML.  So,
in my eyes, this is a bug.  Alas, I've decided against submitting it
because I don't want to risk any more spam exposure than I have already
by subscribing to this list.

Thanks to those who have helped.  And thanks to any people out there
who have a sympathetic ear to what I'm saying.

Alas, there's no free lunch. You pay tons of $$ for Microsoft, or
you spend a lot of TIME trying to fix/work around/figure out all
of the things on Linux that don't work.  But, please Gnome/Evolution
folks, don't thumb your noses at the customer as badly as the KDE
folks did who broke most of my favorite apps, and have yet to fix
them, years later.  KDE is still unusable for me as a desktop 
environment.

Rant over.

Sorry.