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

[Michael Johnson <michaelj maine rr com>]

Jules Bean wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:39:56PM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > On 2000.03.23 15:31 Matthew Guenther wrote:
> > > The best way around it is probably to a GtkText widget to display the
> > > message instead of our current Canvas-based solution.  :)
> > > [...]
> > > > By the way, what do you think guys about having, attachments showns as
> > icons
> > > > in a separate widget, instead of having them inline, as it is now?
> 
> I'd like to see the inline display method as an option, especially for
> text and image types of attachments.  To be honest, when I saw balsa
> inlining an image that someone had sent me, I though it was
> brilliant... much better than an attachments widget! Maybe I'm alone
> in this view though..

While having the images inline is visually impressive, it's also not
consistent since not all attachments can be displayed this way. It also
comes at the expense of more useful functionality, such as the bug that
prompted this whole discussion and wrapping of text in the preview and
message display windows. I'd much rather have my mail displayed to me
with long lines automatically wrapped than have images displayed inline,
even as an optional feature. Having the attachments appear as icons in a
separate pane is perfectly acceptable to me, and probably to the
majority of users.

..mj