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Distortion mode does not work on new messages

#827

I was creating a ticket for you and wanted to show what was happening in the message I was composing. Since it contained e-mails and web addresses, I thought I would turn on Distortion Mode. It didn't do anything in that window.

I also noticed that it did not distort the list of mailboxes down the left side, nor any images in the received message being displayed. It also left the details if any attachments undistorted.

It is definitely a useful feature for reporting bugs.

Reported by David Morrison · June 23rd, 2014 @ 12:07 AM

State: accepted
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

Activity

  1. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to accepted

    The text fields in the composer are, of course, editable. This makes it a bit tricky to distort text, for example, what should happen if editing distorted text?

    Another reason: The distortion feature relies on a low-level formatting routine which most parts of the GUI use before displaying text. This does not happen for the composer and therefore this window would require special code. Also note that the message view is not distorted (again, because the content is not sent through this low-level formatting routine). This could fairly easily be fixed for non-HTML messages though.

    June 23rd, 2014 @ 12:10 PM

  2. David Morrison
    David Morrison

    It's not a problem. I just thought it would be useful if it did distort text being composed.

    June 23rd, 2014 @ 12:24 PM

  3. benny
    benny
    • State changed from accepted to fixcommitted

    For the record: Text in the message view is now distorted for both plain text and HTML including attachment descriptions. (This is new for HTML/attachments and not released yet.) Mailbox names are also distorted.

    (The composer remains non-distorted. This is non-trivial to change and it's unlikely to be implemented.)

    October 30th, 2014 @ 09:25 AM

  4. benny
    benny
    • State changed from fixcommitted to fixreleased

    March 24th, 2015 @ 12:16 PM

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