Am 25.08.10 09:11, schrieb Mattias Põldaru: > Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2010-08-24 kell 20:54, kirjutas Todd Slater: >> Let me put a +1 to ticket #1110, send pictures via email: >> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1110. >> >> I recently tried to help my 80-year old mother use her first ever digital >> camera. She wants to get the pictures where she can see them and share them >> with family and friends via email. I don't think flickr, picasa, or facebook >> are options for her. >> >> I started her off with Shotwell because I like the way it handles importing >> photos from the camera--much quicker and more sensible (to me) than F-spot. >> Once she had the pictures in Shotwell, though, she wanted to email them to >> her friends. Easy enough, I thought, and as I started doing it, I realized >> it was going to be way too complicated for her. >> >> I remembered that F-spot has a send-by-email function, so I fired that up >> and, indeed, it's a pretty good interface. The user can select a number of >> photos, go to File> Send by email (or something), and get prompted for >> resizing options (sensible options with the ability to specify dimensions >> manually, IIRC). Once that's set, her default email client (Thunderbird) >> opens a compose window with the attachments there. >> >> Thinking that was much easier for her, I thought maybe F-spot would be the >> photo manager for her. Unfortunately, as we practiced, the attachments >> stopped working; Thunderbird's compose window came up with My+Photos in the >> subject line but no attachments. Ugh. >> >> So, all this stuff is on hold until I can find something that works. >> >> OK, I realize 80-year olds are probably not the target market for Shotwell, >> but I'm sure ease of emailing would be a feature others might appreciate ;). >> >> I'm loving 0.7, thanks for the great work! >> >> Todd > I now tried and found out, that dragging from shotwell to evolution send > mail window does not work also, the icon simply does not change to being > droppable. Dragging the pictures to a temporary folder, and from there > to send window works well, but this may be a little too much extra work > for a granny. > > > Mattias
Hi, Opening an E-Mail client will always cause problems, they are too different. The better way would be to implement a sending function in shotwell. I once wrote a class to send mails via SMTP in Java and it was pretty easy but I don't know how difficult this may be in Vala... But this approach causes other problems: People don't like to enter E-Mail addresses and want to use their addressbook but which one should then be accessed? There would have to be an implementation for every mailclient! This would be a great feature but there are some things that should be considered when implementing this. Believe me, I had this fun too with our product ;-) _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
