GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 203985
Unintuitive HTML/Text mode switching prevents use of features in Composer
Last modified: 2008-06-23 01:36:01 UTC
The default format setting for the composer is plain-text, which is fine and good, but it has an unintended side effect: The composer "Insert" menu items "Link" "Image" and "Rule" are disabled until the user has selected HTML as the format. The same is true of the color selector and other HTML-only formatting tools. This is not obvious, however, to users. What we'd like to suggest is this: When someone selects an html-only feature, automatically switch to HTML, or (not so good) pop up a message that says "you must use HTML for this feature". Aaron & Kevin.
Adding keywords.
Marking this 1.1; it's one of the GUI things that really should be fixed as soon as we thaw. Aaron- if you'd like to nominate a small number of other 'future' UI stuff as 1.1 please go ahead; no idea how much we'll be able to do for 1.1 but we should start thinking about it. Anna, I'm cc'ing you just to see what I just told aaron :)
Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to evolution@ximian.com, not the bug. Luis
I'm thinking that this is more gtkhtml than it is mailer?
Anna, any thoughts on this? I'm not at all sure what the best thing to do is. I think having the toolbar items be sensitive would be more confusing, I'm not sure about the menu items.
Changing target milestone to Future (should be for 1.4).
Bumping version to a stable release.
The initial editing mode in the composer is now controlled by a user preference. Has this issue been sufficiently addressed in recent GtkHTML versions?
Moving this discussion to bug #408707. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 408707 ***