Version: 1.6.2 (using KDE 3.2.1, SuSE) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.95-default > Why do you want to edit an attachment? All changes you make will be lost > because you are editting a temporary file which will never be read by > KMail. Many reasons for that. Mostly it is OOo files. Just few examples: 1, changing the print layout (for example when you want to fit several pages of the document to one, but you do not want to change the original document in your mail) 2, when you open xls files in OOo many times you have to change the width of some cells in order to see the whole number not just #######. (for me it is important, when i receive a daily financial balance of my company, just want to enlarge some cells in order to see better and maybe do a small calculation and the I delete the mail anyhow) 3, when you want do some small changes which you do not want to save (as I mentioned before maybe just to add few numbers just to see the result) and many other small things which make my life easier. > Instead the temporary file will be deleted as soon as you select > another message. So you anyway have to save the editted attachments > with a different name. Maybe a small option in configuration would satisfy both parties?
Can someone give this some attention because it drives me mad and wastes a huge amount of my time. Ok newbies lose edits because kmail deletes temp files on exit - the correct fix for this is to not delete the file if it has changed. I am sick of saving, changing the permissions and then reloading attachments just so I can fix a minor formating problem before I read or print. I spent several years hacking kmail to fix this annoying bug but now kdepim won't build on my install (suse 10.3) and I don't want to spend a couple of days fixing this instead of working. Someone take pity on this problem - I can code - tell me where the option code resides and where a chunk of dialogbox code for options is and I will code it and submit a fix. Surely I can't be the only person on the planet who finds this immensely irritating!
Seems identical to bug 162130, itself a duplicate of bug 79685. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79685 ***