Re: [Evolution] Composing in html mode

["Japhering, Anonymous" <japhering gmail com>]

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 17:59 -0400, Paulo Cesar G. Costa wrote:

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 22:35 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 13:10 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 21:59 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 12:29 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:

Too bad there isn't a statically-linked version.

The future is rather stuff like Flatpak / Snap / etc.

The buzz words are kind of a mystery. Are there more details about

how to install using these?

Be careful about using things like flatpack - they work, but by their

nature they run in a "sandbox" isolated from the system.  It's fairly

new technology (at least for Evolution) and things are getting better,

but sometimes you come across things, especially in interactions with

the host system, that just don't quite work as you expect.

This is not meant to put you off, it is good to try these things. But

you should be aware that it isn't a total solution yet. There will no

doubt be many people who now jump in and say it works fine for them

("all you need to do is ....").

P.

I second that. Sandboxing might be a good fit for a number of

applications but not for those that inherently require a higher level of

interaction with the file system. These usually take a usability hit

when operating in a sandbox. In my experience, in order to get

attachments in the place I want, import things, attach files, point to

dot files I have, etc., required me to write so many exceptions to the

sandboxing policy that I simply quit using it.

Maybe in the future...

By and large, my two biggest complaints about the FlatPak version are

1) Zombie process created on death of environment that prevents restarting

without a reboot.  Hit an error in Evolution, Evolution dies leaving a 

evolution.bin process which is unkillable.

2) death of the evolution data server (I think), which handles attachments.
Symptoms, making the attachment hangs or if the attachment happens the process

of sending the email out hangs.

The interesting thing is that from build to build ( I rebuild my flatpak environment

every time my system takes a kernel update - Linux Mint 19.3 - 5.4.0-42-generic ), 

is that it changes every time. Some times its both problems other times, its 

one or the other.