On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Christopher A. Williams <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:38 +1930, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Christopher A. Williams >> <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Now, if we could just get a first class message composer for Evolution >> > that lets you easily write text, rich text, or HTML messages, and allows >> > full editing control of fonts, colors, formatting, etc. as appropriate >> > for each. >> >> Well, it already supports rich text, but I suspect you'll have to wait >> forever for HTML editing as it's considered anathema in many circles. >> An email editor has no business trying to be a bastardized word >> processor. Just my 2c. > > Where does Evo support full rich text in the composer? I don't see that > option anywhere, so a pointer on this would be helpful. The menu bar immediately above the composer's text window has two drop-down menus and several formatting buttons. They provide rich text and basic HTML (fonts, paragraph formatting etc.) > I (obviously) disagree with your opinion. There are appropriate times > for sending HTML and for sending plain text messages. If Evolution is so > philosophically against HTML formatted messages, why do they then care > to be able to render messages sent in this format? Seems hypocritical to > me. A good e-mail client should provide both the capability and the > choice to send in HTML. I completely disagree. I think HTML email is in 99% of cases an abomination, and in the 1% of cases it might be justified can be accomodated via an external editor and attachments. However this is a religious issue and hence not worth discussing further. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
