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EclecticGroove
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Awhile ago I got fed up with my parents essentially doing dumb things to their computer around once a month... sometimes more often, and resulting in massive infections of virii and spyware.
They simply kept clicking on things, opening e-mails from people they "knew" regardless of how wrong it was or what the included e-mail actually was (exe files, etc).
After their computer would no longer even boot up properly (again), I decided to bite the bullet and give them Ubuntu, as they only use the PC for mail and internet and a few built in games. This has, in general, reduced my troubleshooting calls from once a month or more, to only a few calls in the first few months to ask how to do certain things.
Now, there is only one thing that I constantly get questions about and I've found no real good solution for (yet).
In windows XP when you right click an image, you have an option to send to a mail recipient. This will then ask you if you wish to resize it. You click yes or no, then it opens your default mail client, composes a new message, attaches your image, and you are set to go.
The resizing option is the sticky issue. I have not found a way to enable this type of feature in Ubuntu. Try as I might to get them to do it other ways, it never sticks, and they always fall back to trying it the way it worked in WinXP.
They simply kept clicking on things, opening e-mails from people they "knew" regardless of how wrong it was or what the included e-mail actually was (exe files, etc).
After their computer would no longer even boot up properly (again), I decided to bite the bullet and give them Ubuntu, as they only use the PC for mail and internet and a few built in games. This has, in general, reduced my troubleshooting calls from once a month or more, to only a few calls in the first few months to ask how to do certain things.
Now, there is only one thing that I constantly get questions about and I've found no real good solution for (yet).
In windows XP when you right click an image, you have an option to send to a mail recipient. This will then ask you if you wish to resize it. You click yes or no, then it opens your default mail client, composes a new message, attaches your image, and you are set to go.
The resizing option is the sticky issue. I have not found a way to enable this type of feature in Ubuntu. Try as I might to get them to do it other ways, it never sticks, and they always fall back to trying it the way it worked in WinXP.
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restart nautilus(log out then back in)
right click image->resize images
right click resized image->send to
I looked at that... and it would be nice if it was all in one step, because that's what's causing the problems. I had that installed, and every time my mom needs to send out an image she calls me again because she doesn't remember what to do, since all she does is right click and e-mail, and it will not resize. Then I get her to resize and she gets frustrated about doing that.
She doesn't need to send images out very often (that are not forwarded on from someone else), but when she does it's always a call to me.
I have not been on the Ubuntu forums yet, I suppose I could ask over there as well. I just posted this prior to heading off to work since I may be up around them this weekend.
There's a pre-made script called "Email my pictures" which seems to do what you want. There's a link to a .deb on the project page:
http://www.grumz.net/?q=node/298