Re: [CSCMail-Users] Few little probs

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Tim Jackson was overheard mumbling something about this on 27 Aug 2000 20:52:39
BST

> Hi,
>  
>  A couple of little things that are just annoying me right now:
>  
>  1. When I click on an attachment to save it, the save window pops up with
>  the
>  filename of the attachment already filled in the box at the bottom.	Great. 
>  But if I navigate to a different directory, the filename box then goes blank
>  and I have to retype the filename.  Tiny but annoying!

This is a "bug" in the Gtk+ file selector widget.  You will find that ALL Gtk+
applications act this way.  I hate it too....  Hopefully the Gtk+ maintainers
will fix it soon...
  
>  2. Spaces seem to be deleted for no reason!	If I am trying to, say, do an
>  ASCII diagram, excess spaces which I type appear to all be removed to leave
>  a
>  single space!  Well, that's how it appears in the outbox anyway. HIGHLY
>  ANNOYING! For example, here I am trying to do a pricelist which adds up,
>  let's
>  see how it comes out: (the numbers should all be vertically lined up on
>  separate lines):
>  
>  item 1	   5.50
>  item foo	  6.00
>  blah 		10.50
>	 -----
>  total		22.00

What version of CSCMail?  I have fixed this in recent CVS updates.... (well, as
long as one is using a fixed width font to view mail.)

>  2) appears to be another problem with the editor.  After our discussions
>  before
>  about wordwrapping, I am getting slightly more used to this way of doing
>  things
>  (softwrap then hardwrap on send) but I would still REALLY like the definite
>  bug
>  whereby if you save the messages as a draft and then re-edit it, all the
>  wordwrapping goes crazy and you end up with alternate short and long lines.

Working on using the CSCHtml widget for editing, and maybe this will fix some
of these glitches...  We'll see...

>  Cheers guys,
>  
>  Tim

Cheers!

-CZ