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Bug 649938 - Automatically resize attached images to fit the screen
Automatically resize attached images to fit the screen
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.0.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Rodney Dawes
Rodney Dawes
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-11 06:57 UTC by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Modified: 2012-05-03 16:44 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dominique Hazaël-Massieux 2011-05-11 06:57:31 UTC 
Evolution allows to see attached images in the body of the email, but for large images (e.g. photos that haven't been reduced by the sender), this is mostly useless as the image gets displayed as is, which requires scrolling within the message frame or window.

For images that are larger than the current message frame, evolution should resize it automatically so that it can be viewed without scrolling. Clicking on the image would probably need to display the image in full size (the same as e.g. in Firefox).

Looking around, it seems like there have been plugins to address this need in the past: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-patches/2005-June/msg00093.html
Comment 1 Dominique Hazaël-Massieux 2011-05-11 06:59:18 UTC 
assigned to wrong product somehow
Comment 2 Akhil Laddha 2011-05-12 04:53:30 UTC 
somewhere similar to bug 256932
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2011-06-30 17:08:44 UTC 
Thanks for a bug report. What's your evolution version, please? The 2.32.x is using a GtkImageView, which should provide such functionality. The 3.0.x doesn't use it, because the gtkImageView isn't ported to gtk3 yet. I believe that this will be fixed as soon as the mailer preview part will use a WebKit, which should cover things like this much easily than with GtkHTML.
Comment 4 Dominique Hazaël-Massieux 2011-07-01 07:39:03 UTC 
I'm indeed using 3.0.x; I've updated the bug description accordingly. Good to know that fixing this is in the works.
Comment 5 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-10-27 20:12:59 UTC 
Just a thought: I presume that with the switch to webkit, this will be done with some CSS like setting the width to be 100% and height to auto?
Comment 6 Milan Crha 2012-05-03 16:44:03 UTC 
Dan may give here more details, but I can confirm that this is fixed with WebKit in 3.5.1. I'm closing this accordingly.