1.5.9.12-pre2

[Kostya Vasilyev]

"Attach cropped pictures", using QuickPic

This is difficult to discover -- the menu item doesn't show unless QuickPic is installed.

And I don't like having an external dependency -- it did break before (once) and took quite some time to get fixed.

[pyler]

Crop =/= resize. My last post is related to this new shrink feature.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

"Crop =/= resize"

QuickPic does both.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

What I'm thinking about doing is --

-- The app setting will only serve as a "master switch" to enable the shrinking feature.

This is where I can try to initialize the actual resizing code (check if it's a supported CPU architecture).

-- The compose screen will have a new menu item to "Shrink attached images", letting the user choose (None / Large / Medium / Small) with size estimates.

-- This menu item can be used multiple times (change your mind? no problem).

-- It will be the user's responsibility to select this menu item.

[StR]

Kostya,
It sounds reasonable. The only question is the one you raised earlier today: what about saving the draft before the images are resized?

Speaking of which, - is there an option to disable automatic synching Drafts while on a mobile network (even if the Inbox and whatever else is synched)? That would help in dealing with the issue above?


Edit: added "automatic" for clarity. Obviously, Manual/Forced synching should remain available at any time on any individual mailbox.

[mikeone]

Kostya,
It sounds reasonable. The only question is the one you raised earlier today: what about saving the draft before the images are resized?

Speaking of which, - is there an option to disable synching Drafts while on a mobile network (even if the Inbox and whatever else is synched)? That would help in dealing with the issue above?

That's a good idea. Thanks for pointing this out.

[julio66]

Any possibility to use this new feature to shrink "properly" inline pictures, in order to improve their display (currently, the result is rather "average-low" quality)

Thumb up for this question/suggestion....
I have been nagging for a better inline picture handling for a year....
Unfortunately Aquamails handling of inline pictures is very bad. It distorting the photos totally, and its not even possible to make a nice happy mothers day mail with an animated gif file, because as all know...when you distort/change size of animations...it doesn't animate anymore.
I have felt stupid for occasions/emails like this, because I install another email app JUST FOR SENDING SUCH EMAILS. Another point is when you make for example an explainatory email with some pics to the text, sends it and the receiver looks at the mail on a computer, the inline pics are really small.....

[Kostya Vasilyev]

DO NOT SEND LARGE IMAGES (PHOTOS) AS INLINES