GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318592
Please Allow UI Notification Of Links Inserted in Entry Mode
Last modified: 2007-11-01 13:37:36 UTC
This issue is mostly happening for me in Evolution when composing email. I think this is the right place to put this issue. When you insert a link into the composer it shows up in Blue. However, there is no UI way to ensure that the link is correct once it's added. I sometimes send out links to like file:// to people or other links, and want to QA it one last time before I send it out. In my view two things could happen to allow the person composing to make sure the link is working and correct: 1) Allow a mouse over, so that the information of the link displays at the bottom. 2) Even better would be if you could click on the link and have it launch the appropriate application. This would exactly simulate the way it works after is sent. Right now I always mail these types of messages only to myself, and then make sure it works, and then copy and paste it into the "real" message. These UI improvements would allow me to eliminate a step. Other information:
if bugzilla would support this, i would vote for it.
Created attachment 97105 [details] [review] proposed gtkhtml patch for gtkhtml; Added support for clickable links also when in editable mode. It is enough to hold Control key to let this work.
Created attachment 97106 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; evolution's part for this patch. It will pass all urls to gnome_url_show, except of "mailto:", "thismessage:" and "cid:" protocols.
looks fine milan. Commit to head.
Hmm, I think one hunk in gtkhtml failed. (I fixed while testing) Just take care of that as well.
gtkhtml part committed to trunk. Committed revision 8610. evo part committed to trunk. Committed revision 34477.