Edits to Image attachments from the Kmail composer window are not saved

[Paul Worrall]

Binary package hint: kdepim

1. Start a new message in Kmail and attach an image file (PNG or JPEG)
2. Right-click the attachment and choose Edit. (Image file opens in Gwenview)
3. Make a change to the image in Gwenview (e.g. Flip the image)
4. Save and close the image
5. Re-open the attachment from the Kmail composer window

Expected behaviour: The changed image opens
Actual behaviour: The original image opens.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 13 13:52:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kontact
Package: kontact 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: kdepim
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Paul Worrall (nicknak)]

Editing OpenOffice files and plain text files (using Kate) works as expected

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Still a problem in version 4.7.3 when following the described steps.

[Paul Worrall (nicknak)]

Version: 4.8 (using KDE 4.8.0)
OS: Linux

When composing an email with an image attatchment, if I edit the image, save and close, then re-open the image, the original pre-edit image is shown.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a new message in Kmail and attach an image file (PNG or JPEG)
2. Right-click the attachment and choose Edit. (Image file opens in Gwenview)
3. Make a change to the image in Gwenview (e.g. Flip the image)
4. Save and close the image
5. Re-open the attachment from the Kmail composer window

Actual Results:
The original image opens.

Expected Results:
The changed image opens

Editing OpenOffice files and plain text files (using Kate) works as expected

[Montel-3 (montel-3)]

I confirm it.
don't know why it doesn't work.

[Winter-s (winter-s)]

I believe this has to do with the EditorWatcher (see messageviewer/editorwatcher.cpp)

In the EditorWatcher, we say that all image mimetypes are read-only.
same with pdfs.

I forget all the details of why we have an EditorWatcher. Volker might remember.

[Montel-3 (montel-3)]

no it doesn't use a EditorWatcher for that.
It's a problem when we resave image.
I will investigate.

[Paul Worrall (nicknak)]

This bug has got worse in Kmail 4.10.3: Edits to text files are now not saved either. Edits to LibreOffice attachments are still saved OK

[Montel-3 (montel-3)]

Will reinvestigate it

[Rohan Garg (rohangarg)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. But don't worry! This issue is being tracked by the KDE developers at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295214. Once fixed in KDE, it will be included in Kubuntu once the KDE version the fix is in in reaches Kubuntu.

Thanks!

[Montel-3 (montel-3)]

I fixed it in 14.12.
Regards