Hi Paul, On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:41:12 +0100 Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:24:58 CET Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > Hello again Shlomi, > > > please reply to list - not to me in private. > > I received your message as a private message, so I answered in kind. > it was not a private message as it was sent to both you and the list. > > > > Hi all! > > > ><snip> > > > > > > > > some of these links are split into two lines. Please fix it in the > > > > future > > > > and/or use a url shortener. > > > > > > Hello Shlomi, > > > > > > How are you today? I hope you are well. > > > > quite. > > > > > Re. Your message: using URL shorteners is probably a bad idea, for several > > > reasons: They force users to move through middlemen they don't > > > necessarily know about, leading to subreptitious tracking; make the web > > > slower; and can direct users to fake sites. They should be used only when > > > strictly necessary. > > > > > > This means one should try and avoid them as much as possible and only use > > > them when there is no other choice,for example, when there is a very > > > little > > > space for characters and a full URL would take up all the space. > > > > They can easily be included in addition to the full URLs, which are split. > > Sure. Unfortunately, I usually am on a tight schedule as it is. If you would > like to spend time passing all the links we produce through a shortener, join > the promo group and you can get cracking! It is a collaborative effort. > I can try but note that it may be possible to automate that - see http://automatetheboringstuff.com/ . > > > As the URLs above, although split, can be easily copy and pasted into the > > > address bar on a browser, it is not essential in this case to use > > > shorteners, hence I haven't used them. > > > > I have a hard time copying and pasting like that due to a problem with my > > hand and depending on that is a huge accessibility and usability problem. > > Maybe talk to the Kmail developers about that. I am not one of them. > > > > I could change the line length on my email client, I suppose (at this > > > moment I don't know what option that would be, but I am sure it is there > > > somewhere), but that would make some lines of text unreadably long; so I > > > prefer not to touch that and leave the default. > > > > a decent email client (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail > > which i happen to use) should not split URLs into several parts even if > > they exceed the message width. If it does, then it is a bug. > > Then you should submit a bug report to the Kmail developers. I am not one of > them. > it was already reported - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381403 . > > > There are trade-offs for every decision, as you can see, and I hope you > > > will excuse me for using the ones I have chosen, and still help us out > > > with the promotion of KDE news. > > > > I already retweeted the twitter link, but won't bother with the split > > urls. > > That's much appreciated. > thanks! > Cheers > > Paul -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- In Soviet Russia, superstition believes in you. — Sawyer X
