GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 312413
new attachment ui duplicates ui/functionality and hence confusing
Last modified: 2008-03-31 20:15:35 UTC
don't duplicate ui, it confuses the user Other information: message attachments appear both in the free-flowing message body AND in the attachment bar - this is a huge waste of space and also confusing to the user.
Nat's big UI push for CODE10 was to remove duplicate UI/functionaility in GNOME/Evolution as study after study has shown that this only results in confusing users. we are taking a HUGE step backwards in this regard with this new attachment UI.
Jeff, we arent literally duplicating the UI. One is the bar where you access attachments similiar to file icons and other is the inline view the same. Though u can save/ dnd from either place. I guess the same idea evolved from the discussion on e-h list with nat/dobey and others.
We should sure look at it in more better way. Im moving to future.
*** Bug 318301 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, as mentioned in #318301, the problem with the attachment "bar" beneath the headers is that most of the time it is triggered by "false" attachments. For example I am subscribed to some mailing-lists where nearly every message has its footer attached instead of appended to the body (probably because the ML engine does not like managing different charsets). So it's very annoying to have this attachment bar prominently displayed in those cases.
Antoine, ill look into it. But as andre said by specs those are attachments.
By the way, here is the source for such a message. It could be simple to detect message parts which have a Content-Type of "text/*" and a Content-Disposition of "inline", and decide that they are not to be considered as true attachments. After all "inline" means just that, exactly like the difference between <img src="..."> and <a href="..."> in HTML. (message follows, most content and private e-mail addresses removed) Return-Path: <copyleft_attitude-owner@april.org> X-Original-To: XXX Delivered-To: XXX Received: from ns1.april.org (ns1.april.org [212.180.1.10]) by brinstar.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445C6B1 for <XXX>; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:38:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sympa by ns1.april.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EPJN4-0004gw-00; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:36:43 +0200 Received: from mail by ns1.april.org with spam-scanned (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EPJMp-0005M6-00 for <copyleft_attitude@april.org>; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:36:35 +0200 Received: from mx-out.tiscali.fr ([213.36.80.91] helo=mail.libertysurf.net) by ns1.april.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EPJMo-000660-00 for <copyleft_attitude@april.org>; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:36:26 +0200 Received: from clansco.clansco.org (213.36.25.39) by mail.libertysurf.net (7.1.026) id 432E7C7D00478FE9 for copyleft_attitude@april.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:36:43 +0200 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:38:31 +0200 From: clansco <XXX> To: copyleft_attitude@april.org Message-Id: <20051011143831.68fdbfe7.falsetti@clansco.org> In-Reply-To: <4348D1FF.2030102@artlibre.org> References: <4344C269.70507@artlibre.org> <20051008222757.4fb83528.falsetti@clansco.org> <4348D1FF.2030102@artlibre.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.2 (GTK+ 2.6.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on ns1.april.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Reply-To: copyleft_attitude@april.org X-Loop: copyleft_attitude@april.org X-Sequence: 1769 Errors-to: copyleft_attitude-owner@april.org Precedence: list X-no-archive: yes List-Id: <copyleft_attitude.april.org> List-Help: <mailto:sympa@april.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <mailto:sympa@april.org?subject=subscribe%20copyleft_attitude> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:sympa@april.org?subject=unsubscribe%20copyleft_attitude> List-Post: <mailto:copyleft_attitude@april.org> List-Owner: <mailto:copyleft_attitude-request@april.org> List-Archive: <http://www.april.org/wws/arc/copyleft_attitude> Subject: [copyleft_attitude] Re: nouveau site artlibre.org Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1129034198-5447-18" X-Evolution-Source: XXX This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1129034198-5447-18 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bonjour antoine moreau, et merci pour ta r=E9ponse. [...] ------------=_1129034198-5447-18 Content-Type: text/plain; name="message-footer.txt" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message-footer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -- Pour toute commande au robot de la liste, adressez vous a sympa@april.org Copyleft Attitude : <http://artlibre.org> Archives et administration : <http://www.april.org/wws/> ------------=_1129034198-5447-18--
Bumping version to a stable release.
Is this bug still valid?
this can be closed as far as I'm concerned
Cool, thanks Jeff. Closing as OBSOLETE.
Hi, It's probably not the same bug as described in the report, but my remarks in comments #5 and #7 are still valid (for Evolution 2.12 though - I'm waiting for the Mandriva packages to stabilize before I upgrade). Should I open another entry for that?