Re: MIME parts not saved

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> I would prefer to not have deletion after one minute, but I'm not
>> sure what other people think.  For example, if I view an image
>> using eog, the window goes blank as soon as the file is deleted.
>
> That's unfortunate, but I think that if you wish to do image treatment
> (and stuff), it would make more sense to save the image, and then start
> whatever command you want to use on that saved file.  The `v'-iew
> related commands are more for viewing.

All I'm doing is viewing, using the standard gnome image viewer.  I
pop-up the image of a cat riding a roomba, and by the time I bring my
laptop over to my wife to impress her, all that eog displays is a blank
image.  It would save me a lot of embarrassment(*) if Gnus wouldn't
delete the file until later.  Especially with Katsumi's fancy
delete-at-exit code, there doesn't seem to be much point in deleting
the files using a timer...

There are other programs which are used purely for viewing attachments
which also choke when the file they are viewing disappears, and it's not
unusual to need to spend a lot more than a minute reading a document.

Dan

(*) Or maybe you think the current behaviour is already saving me
some embarrassment?