[Bug 162130] New: kmail opens attachments RO and saves attachements RO which is hugely annoying and should be an option

[davidblunkett]

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           Summary: kmail opens attachments RO and saves attachements RO
                    which is hugely annoying and should be an option
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: dav1dblunk3tt hotmail com


Version:           3.5.7. release 72.4 but all versions since 2004 (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    0SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

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?


------- Additional Comment #1 From davidblunkett 2008-05-15 17:33 -------
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!