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Re: [LUG] Evolution 1.4.0: Questions



On Monday 29 Sep 2003 11:50 pm, Paul M wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 23:14, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > My Evolution at work has been well-behaved.
>
> I think its mostly me ... it gets confused when I hit reply then cut and
> paste into another reply.
>
>
> This line would go onto the right for ever if  I carried on
> typing.....................................................
>
> Paul M

That's a bug, must be. Look at the KMail action above - find somewhere to t=
runcate it and chop.

=2D------------------------------------------------------------------------=
=2D------------------------------------------------------------------------=
=2D---------------------------------------------------------------------

The line above was completely unbroken until I saved this as a draft, then 
KMail forced two hard line endings despite a complete lack of spaces.

That's the 'standard' behaviour and it's clients like Evolution that get on my 
nerves.

(The =2D stuff is something to do with my character type setting.)

Evolution seems to me to be copying OE a little too closely and is intent on 
breaking the very standards that Linux is otherwise so good at obeying. That 
must be a bad thing for anyone who wants to keep the internet available to 
all. We NEED standards and we need ALL open-source/free software to follow 
the accepted standards. If Linux doesn't encourage users to utilise and 
uphold the standards (and conventions) it leaves no incentive for 
closed-source developers to even pay lip-service to standards and the needs 
of standard-compliant users.

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