[Evolution-users] SOLVED Re: Email signature, picture in in - flatpak version

[Pongrácz István]

Hi Milan,

Thank you for your quick response!
In the meantime I managed to sort it out, and the solution turned out
to be fairly straightforward.

TL;DR
 * Place the logo in $HOME/Documents
 * Run: flatpak override --user --filesystem=$HOME/Documents
   org.gnome.Evolution
 * Restart Evolution
Details 
Flatpak allows you to explicitly grant access to additional host
directories via the command line. Once the override above is applied,
Evolution can directly access the specified folder and its contents. 

As a result, when I inspect the signature file saved by Evolution, the
image reference correctly points to:

 /home/pongracz/Documents/logo.png

This is the same underlying reason why, when dragging and dropping a
file into a new message, one must explicitly confirm whether it should
be attached or embedded inline.

You can add as many directories as needed using the same approach. To
review the current overrides for Evolution, run:

 flatpak override -u --show org.gnome.Evolution


Best regards, 
István



2025. 10. 16, csütörtök keltezéssel 13.39-kor Milan Crha via evolution-
users ezt írta:
> On Thu, 2025-10-16 at 13:23 +0200, Pongrácz István via evolution-
> users
> wrote:
> > Whenever I restart Evolution, it cannot find the image and I only
> > get
> > a question mark.
> 
> Hi,
> the problem might be with the portal, it "knows" the path when you
> select the image during signature editing, but when you close the app
> the portal "forgets" the path and its suddenly not available for the
> flatpak sandbox in which the Evolution runs. I do not know what
> precisely the portal does though...
> 
> Try to paste the image to the signature through the clipboard. That
> way
> the message will have saved the actual data, not a reference to the
> file.
> 
> Another option would be to save the file inside the sandbox, under
> (in
> the host system) `~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/` (I guess under
> 'data', where it should be persistent), then it'll be always
> available
> for the sandbox.
> 
> It would be interesting to know what the <img src="..."> is in the
> sent
> (or draft) email, I'm curious what path the portal provided there.
> 
> Bye,
> Milan
> 
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