Re: Another balsa bug... (was Re: crashes)

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2000.03.23 16:03 Jules Bean wrote:
> The thing is, attachments are a misnomer.  Really, we're just talking
> about multi-part MIME.  multi-part MIME is used for a variety of
> different purposes --- for example, some MUAs use it for forwards,
> resulting in a multi-part MIME doc where all the parts are
> text/plain.  The current implementation handles that elegantly.

I agree with your comments on the "attachment" notion. It's true that
present implementation is relatively well-written in this respect, i.e. it
preserves this structure. My idea is to have a CTree with the message
structure, if any (it is hidden otherwise), and some kind of preview
window, showing presently selected part of the message. In this way, the
information about the message structure is preserved (or even is exposed
more clearly, IMHO) and we avoid these many, many problems of GnomeCanvas,
which is a very good widget, but for other purposes.

Returning to GnomeCanvas, I like inlining too, but the price to pay is to
pretty high at the time being. I happened to get postscript files sent as
text and balsa crashes - when trying to select the message - because
canvas item is too big. I don't think I can accept it.

> Presumably, a charset aware MUA might use multiple text parts when the 
> different parts have different charsets.  That also would look better
> inlined.

Present implementation tries to do so. But the discussed one (the one
without joining whole message in one scrolled window) could do it as well.
 
/Pawel