Re: [Evolution] URL formatting annoyance
> > Thanks. Yes, newer and older are relative terms, but the point is that > something changed the behavior rather majorly within the past few > years, and not for the better. The change was a change of composer that was necessitated by the death of some backend toolkit (sorry, can't remember which one ...) > > Since you asked, though, the version (from Linux Mint) which I'm > currently using, and which presents the issue, is 3.18.5.2. The "older" > version, which does not, is 3.10.4. > 3.18.x is also "old" and no longer a supported version - the current ones are 3.22 and 3.24 - so it is unlikely that any changes will make it into the version you are talking about unless your distro backports them. P. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] URL formatting annoyance
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 19:03 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 12:07 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Some years ago I had an older version of Evolution which automatically > > detected URLs in a plain text message and basically made them preformat > > ted so as not to break them and make them un-clickable on the receiving > > end. This sometimes made for ugly text, but it _worked_! Newer versions > > of Evolution will break a URL arbitrarily, willy-nilly in plain text > > mode - which is useless - and I have to manually insert a line break > > for each line with a long URL and make it preformatted, a bit of a > > PITA. Is there any way to get back to the old behavior? > > > There are few bugs in bugzilla about it - for instance > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757504 > > So it's known about. > > BTW, it's difficult to determine what you mean by "new" or "newer" > without the version of Evolution you are using. Thanks. Yes, newer and older are relative terms, but the point is that something changed the behavior rather majorly within the past few years, and not for the better. Since you asked, though, the version (from Linux Mint) which I'm currently using, and which presents the issue, is 3.18.5.2. The "older" version, which does not, is 3.10.4. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] URL formatting annoyance
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 12:07 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Some years ago I had an older version of Evolution which automatically > detected URLs in a plain text message and basically made them preformat > ted so as not to break them and make them un-clickable on the receiving > end. This sometimes made for ugly text, but it _worked_! Newer versions > of Evolution will break a URL arbitrarily, willy-nilly in plain text > mode - which is useless - and I have to manually insert a line break > for each line with a long URL and make it preformatted, a bit of a > PITA. Is there any way to get back to the old behavior? > There are few bugs in bugzilla about it - for instance https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757504 So it's known about. BTW, it's difficult to determine what you mean by "new" or "newer" without the version of Evolution you are using. P. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] URL formatting annoyance
Some years ago I had an older version of Evolution which automatically detected URLs in a plain text message and basically made them preformat ted so as not to break them and make them un-clickable on the receiving end. This sometimes made for ugly text, but it _worked_! Newer versions of Evolution will break a URL arbitrarily, willy-nilly in plain text mode - which is useless - and I have to manually insert a line break for each line with a long URL and make it preformatted, a bit of a PITA. Is there any way to get back to the old behavior? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
