GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 570931
[prefer-plain] correct command's grammar within HTML Mode
Last modified: 2009-10-29 18:09:11 UTC
In Evolution 2.2.2 > Edit menu > Preferences command > Mail Preferences > HTML Mail > Plain Text Mode > HTML Mode, the menu item "Only ever shown PLAIN" is grammatically incomprehensible. Since the other two menu items are "Show HTML if present" and "Prefer PLAIN" (all without quote marks), I have no idea what the third item is supposed to mean. If that command is phrased the same way in the latest version of Evolution, a rewriting is a good idea. Thank you. -- Nick
Are you sure you mean Evolution 2.2.2 and not 2.22? 2.2 is from 2005. FWIW, the meanings are: - "Show HTML if present" If you receive a mail with both text/html and text/plain parts, show the text/html part (considered the "normal" behavior). - "Prefer PLAIN" If you receive a mail with both text/html and text/plain parts, show the text/plain part (for those who dislike HTML mail). - "Only ever show PLAIN" If you receive a mail with -only- a text/html part, convert it to text/plain as best we can (for those who hate HTML mail). Can you suggest better wording?
Now I understand. To make it easier, within the HTML Mail tab page, I would edit the section heading "Plain Text Mode" to "Text or HTML", drop the menu title ("HTML Mode"), and present the menu as these: Show HTML Show PLAIN Show or convert to PLAIN With this, there's probably no need to clarify the help file. It is 2.2.2; I have Fedora Core 4 Linux, but before posting I looked for this issue including for all Evolution versions in 3 bug-reporting systems (Ximian's, Novell's, and Gnome's) and didn't see it reported (hopefully, I didn't miss it), so unless it was edited without a bug report it seemed likely to have remained. Thank you. -- Nick
The wording is same, only some little description had been added in bug #470291 to the options recently. I like Matt's descriptions quite much, definitely with those "dislike" and "hate". :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 470291 ***