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Hi. My name is Christopher and I'm one of your new bugzilla reporters and aspiring developers. One of the small bugs I have been working on is #589674. (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589674)

The is more coding that needs to be done, and I am willing to work on a patch, but I thought it would be a good idea to get some more input for you developers about what kind of solution you would prefer.

I don't want to repeat everything we wrote in the comments, but the issue is regarding the Send by E-mail feature and how the default form field values are handled.

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Tobias Jakobs wrote:

Hi Christopher,

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 20:14, Christopher Howard wrote:

Hi. My name is Christopher and I'm one of your new bugzilla reporters and aspiring developers. One of the small bugs I have been working on is #589674. (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589674)

I'm not a Gimp developer but I hope I can help. I think the E-Mail Feature needs an overall rewrite. The plugin should use xdg-email [1] and not sendmail, see the quote from Svens mail at the end from this mail[2]. Then the UI don't need any of the fields, that are at the moment in the dialog. This informations can be better entered in the E-Mail program. What is needed are options to scale and rotate the image and perhaps to change the file format. Then it would be important to see the file size, because a lot of mail provider have a limit.
So my suggestion is to first port the plugin to xdg-email with an very basic UI and then start to improve it.

Regards, Tobias

[1] http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-email.html

[2] On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 00:22, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:06 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote:

This feature requires that you have sendmail (or a compatible mail system) installed and configured on your system. As that is rather uncommon nowadays, the plug-in should probably be disabled on most distributions. It's pretty useless anyway (which is why it's called the GIMP Useless Mail Plug-In).

On the lighter side, did anyone consider that if it was instead named the GIMP Realy Useless Mail Plug-In it would be GRUMPI?

Well, instead of doing that, someone could port the plug-in to use 'xdg-email'. That would make it somewhat useful again.

Just curious, as i don't have access to a Windows box: does a Windows GIMP build not have the Send-by-Mail function? Or does it use a native Windows program/function?

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