GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 751079
Lose formatting / HTML mode dialogue on opening composer is annoying
Last modified: 2015-06-17 05:39:32 UTC
With Evolution 3.16.3, if I reply to an HTML e-mail, the composer immediately prompts me with: Turning HTML mode off will cause the text to lose all formatting. Do you want to continue? Don’t lose formatting | Lose formatting This is quite annoying, and I can’t find a way to turn it off. I have the ‘Format messages in HTML’ option disabled in my preferences — so I would expect Evolution to lose HTML formatting and not prompt me about it, since that’s what I’ve chosen for it to do. I think it would be reasonable to continue to display the dialogue box if the user explicitly switches from HTML to text mode using the Format menu in the composer. What’s the reasoning behind this dialogue box?
Hi Philip, (In reply to Philip Withnall from comment #0) > I have the > ‘Format messages in HTML’ option disabled in my preferences — so I would > expect Evolution to lose HTML formatting and not prompt me about it, since > that’s what I’ve chosen for it to do. The reason why it is there is a safety check for users as it will remove the formatting of the message without possibility of undoing it. Now they can at least switch the composer to HTML mode to avoid it. We added a possibility to hide this dialog for Evolution 3.17.1+, but we cannot back port it to 3.16.x as that would need some exceptions. This was fixed with commit 96a4ac56526bf6b0bdb9bb5765acfb7e9280384a in the master branch for Evolution 3.17.1+.