From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Set temp files (viewing attachments) read-only?
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:50:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myo68gsg.fsf@rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9y77si4ok.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> when a user views an attachment, modifies and saves it with the helper
> application (say OpenOffice), after quitting the helper application
> Gnus deletes the temp file. I.e. all modifications made by the user
> are lost. (Similar to Mozilla: [1])
>
> Setting the temp file read-only[2] should make it clear, that editing
> it might be a bad idea. It also forces the user to choose a different
> file name or location when saving. What do you think?
I think that this would be a good idea.
Regards,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-05 17:37 Reiner Steib
2008-04-07 3:50 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2008-04-07 4:19 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-13 20:39 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-08 16:22 ` Magnus Henoch
2008-04-08 17:05 ` Reiner Steib
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