GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 714060
Compose window with too many attachments overflows screen
Last modified: 2019-06-22 05:39:26 UTC
---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-01-05 14:36:00 -0800 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 6186 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6186 Searchable id: yorba-bug-6186 Original author: Tiago Quelhas Original description: If too many attachments are added to a message in the compose window, it grows without bound until it overflows the screen; the compose window then cannot be resized down unless some attachments are removed. A nicer behavior would be to limit the size of the attachment area to some percentage of the screen height, and show a scrollbar if it becomes too big. Related issues: related to geary - 7269: Display attachment byte size in composer (Fixed) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-07-22 16:16:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago * **Category** set to _composer_ * **Priority** changed from _Normal_ to _High_ * **Target version** set to _0.3.0_ #### #2 Updated by Jim Nelson 9 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.3.0_ to _0.4.0_ This is a larger change than we can accept in 0.3. Let's see if we can improve this in 0.4. #### #3 Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_ #### #4 Updated by Jim Nelson 4 months ago One proposal is to list attachments from left-to-right (perhaps RTL for those languages), since we're only displaying the file title. It would layout a lot like the way tags are displayed in some web site. They could flow according to the width of the compose window. To the right (left?) of each attachment is an [X] to remove the attachment from the email. Still, as Tiago points out, we should limit the size of the display by making it a scrolling window inside of a viewport large enough that for common cases the user can see all their attachments without resizing the window. --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:24 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 6186 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6186 Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
*** Bug 730235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 366659 [details] composer full of attachments I confirm it on current Geary. Attachments are piled up vertically one by one and some overflow the screen size. As you can see in the attached screenshot, there's a big grey area between email body and attachment list: its vertical size should be reduced.
This should get fixed as part of Bug 778727.
And/or Bug 795219.
Closing in favour of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/471