Re: Kmail (review and feature wishes)
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On Friday 04 April 2003 17:17, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> Yo!
>
> Posted here since I guess some of the kde upstream folks read this list,
> too. Many of these probably covered somewhere else, too, so please forgive
> me.
Wrong mailinglist :-) Use kmail@kde.org :-)
Ralf
>
> Several things have made me switch from gnome to KDE, so I've installed
> various things and am now relatively happy. For one thing, konqueror
> appears much faster than galeon, so that alone is something...
>
> I was using evolution unitl now, and have now switched to kmail, here my
> first comments: (Oh, yes: kmail 1.5.1, with the PGP/MIME plugin (but you
> saw that) - thanks to Ralf for providing the debs, the woody debs run just
> fine on my mixed sarge/sid system).
>
> Why can the composer not remember that I want it to display the message in
> fixed font? (I assume this is already being corrected in upstream)
>
> A small bug (I doubt I'm the first to notice this, either): quoted text is
> shown in a bigger font than unquoted text. Screenshot (what's a small kde
> app for taking them?) at http://fortytwo.ch/~avbidder/kmail-quoting.png
> (Oh, yes: I'm *not* using custom fonts, but the fonts of the global KDE
> config).
>
> Does kmail support a 'display deleted messages as strike-through' mode?
> Problem: in mailing list folders, while scanning the subject lines, I
> delete messages much faster than kmail can update the display (I'm using
> IMAP over an 256/64 connection, so fetching the next message takes its
> time). Deleting articles that fast does weird things, including making
> kmail crash occasionally (this could also be related because displaying a
> message takes its time whin kmail is autoverificating a gpg signature).
>
> Wishlist feature: newsreader-like 'ignore thread' functionality.
>
> Likely to be a misconfiguration or missing software package: it doesn't
> display attachments (simple ones, like jpgs etc.) inline. Wishlist (that's
> not in kmail, though, as far as I understand): a [ ] do not ask for this
> MIME type again check box when launching an application to view an
> attachment.
>
> Matter of taste: I don't like that kmail opens a new window for the source
> view of the mail. For keyboard reading, switching to source view and back
> could be easy with a single key stroke.
>
> Evo remembers sort order and the displayed columns in the header view (and
> their width and order) on a per folder basis. One thing I'm really gonna
> miss.
>
> kmail <-> kaddressbook integration:
> [ ] this person prefers HTML mail
> [ ] this person prefers encrypted mail
> [ ] don't sign mail to this person
> (or even Use ( ) PGP/MIME ( ) inline PGP ( ) S/MIME .. to sign email for
> this person, but that's probably too fiddly).
>
> What I like: the configurable keyboard shortcuts, the good GPG
> integration, the good handling of the spacebar.
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