Re: [Evolution] Attachement reject and thumbnail glitch after update

[Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 hotmail com>]

On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 08:56 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
>       Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 04:25 +0100, U.vi wrote:
> > - I can't drag and drop anymore attachement, it pop the following:
> > "Unable to load attachment.
> > Error obtaining information from the file "/path/to/file": no file
> > or
> > folder of this type."
> > I still CAN use the "add attachement" button.
> > (This is a french computer)
>
> Welcome in the Flatpak world. Flatpak has many restrictions in
> compare
> to "natively" installed applications. This is just one of those. You
> might need to convince the portal and gtk+ developers to allow drag &
> drop of this kind. I suppose the "/path/to/file" looks like a path on
> the host system, for example like "/home/user/....", not like
> "/run/....", right? The real path on the host system doesn't match
> the
> path inside the Flatpak sandbox. You can let the Flatpak application
> access whole host file system, though the Flatpak developers consider
> it a security problem, something against the intention of Flatpak. I
> do
> not have the exact command handy, I'm sorry, but, if I'm not
> mistaken,
> it's possible to do it without rebuilding the Flatpak application.
>
> > - Evolution thumbnais are replaced by File explorer thumbnail in
> > alt+tab switcher
>
> Weird, never heard about it. Sounds like a configuration issue on the
> host system or in your desktop environment.

Not sure how much of your system you need to open up to Evolution, but
I add this to my startup command: --filesystem=home