Re: [Evolution] OK_someone explain this: OO Calc cell contents to Evolution image attachment

[Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com>]

> Why does Evo turn this item into an image and make it an attachment?
> When I right click the "attachment" and open it with Image Viewer, it
> just shows the string of numbers.
>
> Running 2.28.3 with Ubuntu 10.04, which I believe is the up-to-date
> version for that distro.

It's a bug. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574071 and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603715 .

Both of these were fixed in Evo 2.30.

Your options that come to mind are:
* Upgrade to a later version of Ubuntu. But, you would lose the
long-term-support aspect of 10.04.
* Use pinning to try and grab just a later Evo bit plus needed support
libraries. I have never tried this with Ubuntu (but have with Debian),
so no idea how workable this is or not. Versions of Evo that ship with
the various releases are shown here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=evolution
* Use a PPA.
* Compile your own (definitely not recommended, unless you're regularly
compiling gnome stuff or like pain - last time I tried compiling Evo on
Ubuntu with the makefile method I got stuck on an error about a package
not being available, despite definitely having that package installed;
and another method gave errors about not being able to find C header
files, so I had to change various Evo C file header lines from '#include
<x>' to '#include "../x"', and gave up after the 20th error).
* Use a workaround (e.g. paste to gedit first).

-- All the best,
Nick.