Proposal: URL attachments

David Faure dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Mon Oct 4 21:15:11 CEST 2004


On Monday 20 September 2004 15:52, Joon Radley wrote:
> Hi Bo,
> 
> > When you add an attachment to an event in KOrganizer, it asks 
> > you if you want to do save this in the event, or just keep a 
> > URL around. No matter what the user chooses, we will 
> > currently override it because all attachments must be saved 
> > in the mail.
> > 
> > Could we change this to be up to the user if he wants to 
> > inline it or just link to it?
> > 
> > I propose we do these two:
> > 
> > <inline-attachment>filename</inline-attachment>
> > <link-attachment>URL</link-attachment>
> > 
> > Where the first is the current behaviour and the second 
> > contains a valid URL.
> 
> This sound fine. AFAIK Outlook does support referenced attachments, but I
> will need to spend some time on this to make sure. If not or I cannot make
> it fit, I will just preserve the tag.

OK, change made to the specification, <attachment> is gone,
<inline-attachment> and <link-attachment> replace it.

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
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