Bug#289153: kmail: bad support for paragraph changes and linebreaks
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.3.1-3
Severity: normal
If I compose a new message and press Enter with the cursor in the
message body, a new paragraph is created. This means that in the HTML
source code the sequence </p><p> is inserted. In the plain text version,
just a newline character is inserted.
In my opinion, this behavior concerning plain text is not very nice. It
is usual practice to insert a blank line to denote the beginning of a
new paragraph since otherwise you cannot distinguish between paragraph
changes and ordinary linebreaks. (An "ordinary linebreak" would occur,
for example in this text:
Best regards,
Wolfgang Jeltsch)
On the other hand, KMail *displays* the HTML paragraph changes (</p><p>)
by inserting a blank line. But this is ugly, in my opinion. KMail
should use a smaller gap between the paragraphs. Inserting blank lines
is a solution for plain text where no smaller gaps are possible.
So pressing Enter should result in </p><p> in the HTML source code which
should be displayed via a small gap between the paragraphs, and it
should result in a blank line in the plain text version.
In addition, it should be possible to insert ordinary linebreaks. These
should result in just a linebreak in the plain text version of the mail
and in <br/> in the HTML version. Paragraph changes are bad for things
like the "Best regards" example above. It would be bad to have a blank
line or even a smaller gap between "Best regards," and "Wolfgang Jeltsch",
and in addition it would be semantically incorrect to have both strings in
different paragraphs.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-pike
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.1-4 KDE core libraries
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkcal2 4:3.3.1-3 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdenetwork2 4:3.3.1-3 KDE Network library
ii libkdepim1 4:3.3.1-3 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra0a 4:3.3.1-3 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.3.1-3 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.3.1-3 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1a 4:3.3.1-3 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii perl 5.8.4-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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