AquaMail Forum
English - Android => Development builds => Topic started by: Kostya Vasilyev on July 04, 2015, 02:12:45 am
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http://www.aqua-mail.com/download/AquaMail-market-1.5.9-37-dev1.7.apk
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+ Fixed vertical scrolling in "full" message header
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+ Исправил заявленную вертикальную прокрутку в "полном" заголовке сообщений
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I just wanted to say I am having problems with the 2 last dev builds showing/loading emails with attachments.
If it is old (already loaded) emails with attachments they show ok, but new arriving emails shows blank. I reversed back to 1.5.7.xx and all ok.
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>> new arriving emails shows blank
Blank completely, no message text either?
Or message text there, but attachments missing?
What happens if you tap "forward" -- do you get prompted for attachments?
This is just a test to see if the app "knows" that the attachments are there. Please let me know.
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Blank completely but showing a binder but nothing happens if I click that one...
And yes...I get promted for also sending attachment if I push forward.
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Just in case, - on my Razr M, 1.5.9-37-dev1.7 has no problem with the attachments, - I received 3 messages this morning with a bunch of JPEGs attached, and I saw nothing unusual (except that the attachments were at the bottom and not in the side tab, - which is the feature of the new version).
[speculation] But it might depend on how the attachment was done by the originating mail program, and possibly on the imap server as well. [/speculation]
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>> Blank completely but showing a binder but nothing happens if I click that one...
Binder? What's a binder?
A screenshot would be great.
Also please try -dev2 posted last night.
>> I get promted for also sending attachment if I push forward.
You get prompted to pick which attachments to include when forwarding, correct?
In this case, the app knows that the attachments are "there", but somehow has trouble displaying them properly.
A screenshot would be double-plus-great.
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Kostya,
I discovered a "feature" of the this version that is related to the recently introduced change.
At least on my Razr M, once I download the attached images, they show up as large (larger than before) thumbnails: For the vertical orientation, they take the entire width, for the horizontal orientation, they are two in a row. In both cases, there is a fixed ratio.
If the images are in landscape orientation, that seem to be [mostly] fine. But when the image is in portrait orientation, it is essentially converted in that thumbnail to landscape by cutting off the top and the bottom. (and that happens to landscape-oriented images too, if the ratio is different from yours) It looks like you thought of an "optimum" ratio, and then you are cutting all photos to this Procrustes bed.
In many cases, that negates at least one idea of the thumbnails: to be able to see the images inside Aquamail without opening them in an external program.
(One might argue that the idea is only to identify the image. - While that is a valid one, I would claim that if you are trying to make the thumbnail larger than it was before, my use logic is more applicable.)
I'd rather have the image not filling the entire width (or half-width for the landscape phone orientation), but being displayed in full.
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The previews have to have same height, all of them, for the dynamic loading (as you scroll) to work.
So the choice is to either clip off top and bottom, or scale to fit both dimensions. I chose the former -- since the latter looks "oh so weird".
I think it's a good compromise, since those are *previews*, just to give an idea of an image (and some visual candy, maybe it's debatable...). It's not intended to be a way to *view* images.
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What is the purpose of previewing images?
I can guess - to decide if you want to view them or not.
But if you cannot see large portion of the image (as in case of the portrait-oriented image, especially 3:2, that is typical for DSLRs), - you are cutting about half of the image, can you really *preview* it?!
(In my case, I couldn't see faces of the people, - so, I couldn't figure out if I wanted to view them or not).
IMHO, if you have to have a constant height, a better solution is to fix that dimension, and let the other adjust according to the original proportions of the photo. In that case, you may decide if you want to center or to align the images along the left edge. I'd probably choose the latter.
This is typical how thumbnails are usually aligned for, say, online photo galleries (I am not talking G+ or latest Flickr, but about real photo galleries).
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A good question about the purpose of previews.
I don't know.
In Gmail / web, lately, that's all I get -- previews -- and then when I click an attachment to view or save, it goes to "loading..." and never finishes.
But I digress.
I sincerely don't know what previews are for. Honest.
I only know that they're not intended to be a replacement for viewing images in a specialized app (Gallery, Photos).
You'll see that the previews have no pinch zoom (or any zoom), have no way to adjust the gamma or colors, no way to crop, no red-eye reduction. This list could be made longer.
I also know that showing "tall" images in a "fit based on height, let width go" format looks absolutely terrible.
But what previews are *for* I don't know.
Then again, I don't know what mobile mail apps are for either. Personally, I don't use them. Maybe I'm missing something.
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HAR!
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>> Blank completely but showing a binder but nothing happens if I click that one...
Binder? What's a binder?
A screenshot would be great.
Also please try -dev2 posted last night.
>> I get promted for also sending attachment if I push forward.
You get prompted to pick which attachments to include when forwarding, correct?
In this case, the app knows that the attachments are "there", but somehow has trouble displaying them properly.
A screenshot would be double-plus-great.
Here you get screenshots Kostya....I put in which version of Aquamail the screens are from, on the screenshots so its easier to see....
I can also mention that I also receive some emails when the attachment is jpg (or any image file) but when it is a pdf or zip I don't .
Especially emails I receive from goverment office or big companies.
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@julio -- I'd need the original source code of one of those "bad" messages.
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Should I forward one of those emails to you??
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Two ways to do it:
1 - "forward as .eml attachment" in web mail or desktop mail app.
2 - "view message source" ("show original message", etc) in web mail or desktop mail app, save to plain text file, send as attachment.
Just forwarding is going to be much less useful... but perhaps if the options above aren't possible...
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Two ways to do it:
1 - "forward as .eml attachment" in web mail or desktop mail app.
2 - "view message source" ("show original message", etc) in web mail or desktop mail app, save to plain text file, send as attachment.
Just forwarding is going to be much less useful... but perhaps if the options above aren't possible...
Thanx a lot for your respons Kostya.
Just sent you an email with the txt file...
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Thank you. Will take a look.