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. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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