Working with Evolution 3.60.2 (by Flathub.org) because of new features in Calendar I have noticed that all of my signatures lose their embedded images every couple of days. Re-inserting the images fixes the issue but a few days later thei are gone again.
I have not had this problem while working with any of the package manager-provided versions of Evolution.
Has anybody encountered same or similar problems?
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Hi,
the signatures are changed only when being edited. I do not expect you
to edit them every other day, thus the problem might be somewhere else.
Getting files into the Flatpak sandbox is a little challenge, which is
solved by the portals. I’m wondering whether the signatures have saved
the image really embedded, or only as a file path.
When you look into
~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/config/evolution/signatures/
you will see your configured signatures. When I tried it here, it used
a portal path, not an inline image, as:
<img src="evo-file:///run/user/1000/doc/lOXd6FHEG2YEjsnEv9Ys4Q/file.png"
width="64px" height="64px">
thus once the portal removes the file reference the image is “gone”.
When I open the image in Firefox and right-click it and then use “Copy
Image”, and then paste it into the signature editor, then it ends up in
the signature file as:
evo-file:///home/$USER/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/cache/evolution/tmp/file.png
thus also nothing great. I tried it as a workaround.
You found a disadvantage of not embedding the image into the signature.
An advantage is: when you’d change the image file content, you will not
need to update the signatures, because they will get the change for
free.
Though it seems Flatpak or not, embedding the images in the signature
is safer, while storing as file path has more disadvantages than
advantages (like when the original file is lost or moved away).
I opened Mail: Embed file-based images in saved HTML signatures (#3377) · Issues · GNOME / evolution · GitLab for
you. One part is to embed the images into the signature, the other part
is to turn the embedded image into a cid: attachment, just like file-
based images.
Bye,
Milan
Milan:
Thanks as always for your prompt reaction. Blow please find my comments to your remarks and suggestions:
Signatures are only being edited when necessary and - as was the case for my ticket - if something happens to them. Just FYI - the referenced images were neither moved nor changed, nor were the containing folder location or properties. That’s what makes the case so obscure.
Pictures are indeed only referred to as file paths as shown by the two samples you gave, regardless of the method. I have moved the folder with my image files into ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/ and changed the respective signature files in the /signature folder respectively. So far… keeping my fingers crossed - seems to hold out.
I preferred the link method in the packaged versions due to the size of “pasted” pictures. It used to enlarge my mails unnecessarily so I reduced the size of the pics as to not unduly clog the addressees’ mailboxes.
Thanks for opening a work request to fix the issue. It is highly appreciated.
Once again - thanks for all your help on this annoying problem.
Cheers and regards, Norbert