#542757 evolution: "Save All" does not function

Package:
evolution
Source:
evolution
Description:
groupware suite with mail client and organizer
Submitter:
Drew Parsons
Date:
2010-03-03 22:57:22 UTC
Severity:
normal
#542757#5
Date:
2009-08-21 07:33:02 UTC
From:
To:
Subject: evolution: "Save All" does not function
Package: evolution
Version: 2.26.3-2+b1
Severity: normal

When there are multiple attachments, evolution offers a "Save All"
button to save them all to file at once.  But it's not working.  I
press on "Save All", a dialog box pops up for selecting the directory.
I press "Save" in that dialog box, but then nothing happens at all.
The attachments are not saved, the "Save All" dialog box is still
there. The "Save" button has been completely ignored.

The attachments are simply given as application/octet-stream, base64
encoding, in the Message Source, e.g.

"--000e0cd5f14cf51db20471933ff4
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Dielec001.dat"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Dielec001.dat"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-Attachment-Id: f_fylkdc4i2
..."

Saving each attachment individually, one by one, works correctly.

#542757#10
Date:
2009-08-21 08:39:46 UTC
From:
To:
I think you have to *give* a directory name.

Cheers,

#542757#15
Date:
2009-09-08 09:12:58 UTC
From:
To:
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

Having to type one in would not make sense.  I've already clicked on the
directory I want, it's showing in the directory tabs at the top of the
"Save All" dialog box.  So the directory has been declared, all I should
have to do is click on "Save", and that's that.  But that's what's not
working.

I got a new email with attachments, tried again.  It still does not
work as I described.  This time I tried clicking in the files area (the
main box in the Save dialog). It's shaded out, since normally it would
be used for naming the file, but that doesn't apply when all files are
to be saved at once.  Nevertheless, after clicking in the files area, I
can then click on Save, and the files get saved.

It's this behaviour which doesn't make sense. It's not intuitive.  Since
the files area is shaded out, you'd never expect that you have to first
click there.  All that clicking in the files areas does, is to remove
the keyboard focus from the "Location:" entry box. Nothing else.

I think this is a real bug.  A usability bug, if not a strictly
technical one.

Drew

#542757#20
Date:
2010-03-03 22:56:54 UTC
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To:
i found the issue to be when i double-clicked a directory (and therefore
entered it) i thought this would select the directory.  Perhaps the solution
is if no directory is selected, the current directory displayed in the view
would be inferred.

This was tricky for me to figure out because my first view showed /Desktop,
where i wanted to save the files to.  i thought i could just hit "Save", but
nothing would happen.  Already being in /Desktop, i did not think at first
to navigate to / and then choose /Desktop.