From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43112 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improper handling of some mime types Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:32:28 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nr8nox93n.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178259 15814 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:30:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8711 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2002 18:11:09 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 14 Feb 2002 18:11:09 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16bQLF-0000J1-00; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:10:45 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:10:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA13802 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:10:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8443 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2002 18:03:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8438 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2002 18:03:47 -0000 Original-Received: from roc-24-58-72-167.rochester.rr.com (HELO zsh.2y.net) (@24.58.72.167) by gnus.org with SMTP; 14 Feb 2002 18:03:47 -0000 Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.2y.net (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g1EHWTL15785; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:32:29 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: #zw9`a=vHLkn+ZH8C (Kurt Swanson's message of "14 Feb 2002 08:57:09 -0800") Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43112 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43112 Kurt Swanson writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >> Kurt Swanson writes: > >>> Some mime types are not displayed at all--nothing, not even a button. > >> To show buttons for multipart/alternative, hit `K b'. > > Ok, if I do that I can choose between text and html versions. The > picture button doesn't show under text, so I have to choose html, and > then the button simply shows up as > "[cid:alonglineofgibberishnottellingmeevenwhatthisbuttontypeis]". I > can then click this button showing the picture. > > So you're saying I essentially have to hit `K b' in every single > article I read just in case there's (by Gnus) hidden data, and then, > if there is an html version, choose that, and the click all buttons, > hoping one of them will do something useful for me? > > To me this is a *serious* error. There are two mime parts in > message-id: tQCa8.5559$qt6.469306@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net in > the alt.binaries.pictures.orchid newsgroup. To put it simply, there > is part 1a, 1b, and 2; i.e. there are two versions of part one (they > share the same id code) and one part 2 (different id). Part two > should be recognized as separate (and equal?) and displayed, > regardless of the user's choice of a or b for part 1. The fact that > part 2's very existence can only be seen (and then handled poorly) > when part 1b is chosen can't be the desirable functionality here... You can customize gnus-mime-display-multipart-as-mixed, gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed or gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed to get a desired behavior (some of them are new in oGnus). ShengHuo