Re: [Evolution] Composing in html mode

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

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...

I think the problem is not so much access to the filesystem, which
generally is just the host's own filesystem, but access to the rest of
the Desktop Environment. Evolution in particular is integrated with the
Gnome system and expects to be able to communicate with other GTK-based 
components which will often not be accessible from within the sandbox.

poc