Re: [Evolution] OK_someone explain this: OO Calc cell contents to Evolution image attachment

[Carpet Nailz <carpetnailz researchintegration org>]

Thanks to all.
It's nice when a post has a definite answer.

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:01 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> > Why does Evo turn this item into an image and make it an attachment?
> > When I right click the "attachment" and open it with Image Viewer, it
> > just shows the string of numbers.
> >
> > Running 2.28.3 with Ubuntu 10.04, which I believe is the up-to-date
> > version for that distro.
>
> It's a bug. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574071 and
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603715 .
>
> Both of these were fixed in Evo 2.30.
>
> Your options that come to mind are:
> * Upgrade to a later version of Ubuntu. But, you would lose the
> long-term-support aspect of 10.04.
> * Use pinning to try and grab just a later Evo bit plus needed support
> libraries. I have never tried this with Ubuntu (but have with Debian),
> so no idea how workable this is or not. Versions of Evo that ship with
> the various releases are shown here:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=evolution
> * Use a PPA.
> * Compile your own (definitely not recommended, unless you're regularly
> compiling gnome stuff or like pain - last time I tried compiling Evo on
> Ubuntu with the makefile method I got stuck on an error about a package
> not being available, despite definitely having that package installed;
> and another method gave errors about not being able to find C header
> files, so I had to change various Evo C file header lines from '#include
> <x>' to '#include "../x"', and gave up after the 20th error).
> * Use a workaround (e.g. paste to gedit first).
>
> -- All the best,
> Nick.
>
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