GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309772
Image scaling when attaching and slideshow when viewing
Last modified: 2012-02-28 11:46:47 UTC
It's not very convenient to receive (or send) messages with large photos. When you attach a large photos (which are typically produced by modern digital cameras) it would be nice if Evolution asked about scaling the images to smaller size. This would save mail downloading time in dialup systems and make it easier for message receiver to view the images. Also it would be nice if there were a slideshow button on the message when the received message contains images.
For the records: The entire first part is a duplicate of bug 256932. The last two lines are the only remaining issue. Timo, do you still see a need for this, given that Evo 2.4 conviniently lets you save all attachments at once? Does saving all images to a dir solve this? Since a "slideshow" feature sure is out of the scope of a mailer this would depend on the image viewer used. IMHO the last part isn't really a mailer issue. Timo, do you agree or do you believe this to be missing feature in Evo? BTW, please file only one single issue in one bug report in the future. This makes keeping track easier. Thanks.
It's great to read that image attaching has improved. I am sorry those two features are in same request. I know that 2.4 has Save all button and it's actually only practical way to "view" multiple huge digital images received from your friend. I mean if you receive photos that are - let's say - two times wider than your screen you have to first save them to harddisk (including the decision where to save) then open image viewing software like gThumb, find the saved images, start slideshow and finally probably remove the saved images (if not in folder like /tmp). This is no problem for me but for less technical person there are too many steps. She probably ends up scrolling around huge images trying to recognize what they represent. Of course, there could be an external application that manages slideshow for Evolution but IMHO lanching it should be made very easy. Another path could be if Evolution automaticly resizes images to match the message viewer width, similar how Firefox deals with plain images (without HTML).
Correction... I just viewed Evolution 2.5.91 and image scaling when viewing message seems to be implemented. That is very good! I don't know if you have also made Evolution developement version to ask about image scaling when attaching. If you have then my wishes cornerning image viewing are fulfilled and slideshow can be ignore - as much as that depends on me. Thank you :-)
Timo: To answer your points. 1. From 2.4 we resize while viewing bigger images. in 2.5.x you have a zoom cursor to help u realize that :) 2. I 've got some people working on some e-plugins to resize an attachment and a cairo based slideshow plugin. But the (2) may be for 2.8.
A slideshow plugin will be very useful !
Johnny did something a year or so back.
ah ! /me need to dig through his mails and find that tarball.
I've outsourced our inline image viewing to GtkImageView [1] in 2.29, so a slideshow feature might be more feasible using this library. [1] http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/chrome/common/gtkimageview-docs/GtkImageView.html
First item is bug 256932. Proposing WONTFIX for second item, as slideshows should be done by image applications I'd say.
Yeah, slideshows are way outside our scope. Let's disregard that and close this as a dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256932 ***