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Bug 206058 - Mime types for mail attachments cannot be edited
Mime types for mail attachments cannot be edited
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 257749 550139 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-08-02 08:57 UTC by Nigel Metheringham
Modified: 2011-04-27 08:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
untested patch to make mime type editable (1.51 KB, patch)
2005-09-26 22:15 UTC, André Klapper
rejected Details | Review

Description Nigel Metheringham 2001-08-02 08:57:08 UTC
Package: Evolution
Priority: Normal
Version: 0.11
Synopsis: Mime types for mail attachments cannot be edited
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Mailer

Description:
Build a text file with a .dat extension - ie usage.dat
Attache file to outgoing message, evo sets MIME type to mp3, won't allow editing to set to text/plain

Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2001-10-11 20:26:10 UTC
I don't think we should have it editable...

I can just piture some user going "oh, I dunno what
application/octet-stream means so I'm gonna change it to 'mp3 file'"

anyways, if you really want to be able to edit it... bring up glade on
e-msg-composer-attachment.glade and make it editable. it'll just
magically work.
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2001-10-12 19:24:52 UTC
Having it be editable would be nice, but we don't want to make the
user type in a MIME type. A simple pop-up menu would get too big
even with just the default gnome-vfs stuff though... Dunno what
the right fix is. Nothing for 1.0 though.
Comment 3 Adrian von Bidder 2002-04-09 14:52:43 UTC
I would definitely like to have the MIME-Type editable. 

just a text input will be enough, with an added check if the value
typed in by the user really *is* a MIME-type.

Also, I would be interested being able to specify the encoding of the
MIME part to be used - for text/... it should be possible to chose
between 7bit (with validity check), qp or base64. Specifying
additional parameters like charset would be nice, too (ok, these could
be just entered with the MIME-Type input field.

cheers
-- vbi
Comment 4 André Klapper 2004-07-15 12:43:01 UTC
*** bug 257749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 André Klapper 2004-07-15 12:44:00 UTC
to quote jeff from bug 257749: "this is actually really trivial to make
work. all one has to do is edit the composer's glade file and make the
GtkEntry box editable."
setting keyword easy_fix.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2005-04-29 09:57:23 UTC
ok, so this would be "evolution/composer/e-msg-composer-attachment.glade".

any decisions on this? i'd assume that a use that simply does not know what a 
mime type is also wouldn't edit it (hmm...now is that naive? ;-).
Comment 7 André Klapper 2005-09-26 20:00:27 UTC
still in 2.4.0, sucks (e.g. bug 317239), our users aren't stupid (hopefully), am
going to provide a patch for it, good night.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2005-09-26 22:15:03 UTC
Created attachment 52706 [details] [review]
untested patch to make mime type editable

untested patch, does not include suggestions of comment #3.

only refers to mail attachments but not to appointment or task attachments
(same case)
Comment 9 parthasarathi susarla 2005-09-27 12:50:43 UTC
Hmm....Althought the patch is fine, i really think it should not be editable.
And for the bug 317239 refered to in comment #7 i dont think this is definitely
_the_ solution. 
Comment 10 André Klapper 2005-09-27 15:08:06 UTC
parthasarathi: you're definitely right in your comment. no, it's not a solution
and just a *very* bad workaround; and i think it's also totally ok that it
should not be editable. i'd be also pleased if somebody set this to WONTFIX (i
don't care at all about that stuff here, i never needed to edit the mime type),
but i'd like to have a decision at all. :-)
Comment 11 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-06-02 05:49:57 UTC
I feel that we shouldn't make this editable. Im closing this as WONTFIX.
Comment 12 André Klapper 2011-04-27 08:25:21 UTC
*** Bug 550139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***