-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Jakobs wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 20:14, Christopher Howard<choward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi. My name is Christopher and I'm one of your new bugzilla reporters >> and aspiring developers. One of the small bugs I have been working on is >> #589674. (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589674) > > I'm not a Gimp developer but I hope I can help. I think the E-Mail > Feature needs an overall rewrite. The plugin should use xdg-email [1] > and not sendmail, see the quote from Svens mail at the end from this > mail[2]. Then the UI don't need any of the fields, that are at the > moment in the dialog. This informations can be better entered in the > E-Mail program. What is needed are options to scale and rotate the > image and perhaps to change the file format. Then it would be > important to see the file size, because a lot of mail provider have a > limit. > So my suggestion is to first port the plugin to xdg-email with an very > basic UI and then start to improve it. > > Regards, > Tobias > > [1] http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-email.html > > [2] > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 00:22, Sven Neumann<sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:06 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: >> >>>> This feature requires that you have sendmail (or a compatible mail >>>> system) installed and configured on your system. As that is rather >>>> uncommon nowadays, the plug-in should probably be disabled on most >>>> distributions. It's pretty useless anyway (which is why it's called the >>>> GIMP Useless Mail Plug-In). >>>> >>> On the lighter side, did anyone consider that if it was instead named >>> the GIMP Realy Useless Mail Plug-In it would be GRUMPI? >> Well, instead of doing that, someone could port the plug-in to use >> 'xdg-email'. That would make it somewhat useful again. Just curious, as i don't have access to a Windows box: does a Windows GIMP build not have the Send-by-Mail function? Or does it use a native Windows program/function? - -- http://indicium.us http://theologia.indicium.us I sign /all/ my e-mail messages via PGP. If you receive any e-mail supposedly from me without my valid PGP digital signature, please take additional steps to verify the authenticity of the message. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpvlo8ACgkQQ5FLNdi0BcXwKgCePLlCZGN0VZgmWXNgyoksfXqQ pmgAoIga/xd28ENt6kQByBVgl1UQM7PU =iMzt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
