Re: [Geary] inline text from attachment is not displayed

[Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>]

Il giorno ven 29 lug 2016 alle 4:01, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> ha 
scritto:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Federico Bruni <fede inventati org> 
> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if we've already discussed this matter.
> > In a mailing list I'm subscribed to there's an user who sends emails 
> > with Gnus/Emacs. Sometimes he includes some text inline, taken from 
> > an attached file. The text taken from the attachment is not visible 
> > inline.
>
> The problem here is the content type of the second part: 
> "text/x-lilypond". Since it isn't text/plain, I'm not sure if we can 
> assume that it be displayed inline as plain text. For example, If 
> Geary didn't already support text/html, it wouldn't make much sense 
> to simply display an inline HTML part as plain text in a message.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> 1. Does the second part at least show up as an attachment at the 
> bottom of the message? If not, that definitely a bug.
> 2. Maybe when a non-displayable inline part is encountered, it should 
> at least appear as a clickable icon at that point, rather than be 
> placed down the bottom with the other attachments. Would that help?

Yes, the attachment is visible. So it's not a serious issue.
A clickable icon might help, but I'd prefer the text to be displayed. 
There's no workaround? Can you write something like (pseudocode):

if text/html, then display html
else if text/*, then display text

?