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Preview attachments to a new send email

Asked by Alan Wirth

When sending an email and adding an attachment it seems I am unable to preview pictures.
There is no option to preview anything except the file name.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to configure Evolution to see at least a thumbnail of potential picture .jpg or similar attachments?

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Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question.

It's a short answer: no. You might want to file a feature request on the bug tracker.

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Alan Wirth (mtbark) said : 		#2

Thanks for your reply - I had spent a lot of time trying to find the answer - thinking there must be a way to do this. I guess the same answer applies to Mozilla's Thunderbird email client?
Is there an email client which allows the preview of attachments which is as good as Evolution in other ways?

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Best Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#3

Can't preview with thunderbird too (same dialog). Gnome developers seem to have refused to implement that on the widget level, so every application has to implement it's own preview: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372344

Changing the desktop manager should help, for example i believe kde has a file chooser with image preview. There's even a hack to use kde file chooser with gtk applications: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36077.

An workaround is to have a file manager (nautilus) window open and drag&drop images on a mail in evolution.

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Alan Wirth (mtbark) said : 		#4

Thanks for that - the workaround is a good idea.
I'm not too good technically so won't attempt any hacks.

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Alan Wirth (mtbark) said : 		#5

I enjoyed reading the comments about previewing at:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372344

Seems an obvious enhancement to me as a non-technical user and surely no-one wants to preview every kind of file. It's mainly numbered photo files that need the preview function.
The WONTFIX attitude seems rather short-sighted.
Thanks again.