Several problems with KMail in KDE 4.2

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

On Sáb 14 Fev 2009, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:49:23 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > On Qui 12 Fev 2009, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 19:42:02 Marcelo Magno T. Sales 
wrote:
> > > > People,
> > > >
> > > > Since I've upgrade do KDE 4.2 from updates-testing, KMail is
> > > > presenting several issues which are making it real hard for me
> > > > to use it. The message list panel doesn't remember which
> > > > columns is should show nor their order. Every time I close
> > > > Kontact and reopen it, all 17 available columns are displayed
> > > > in some default order. It's no good to hide the ones I do not
> > > > want and reorder the ones I want, because the next time I close
> > > > and reopen Kontact all of them are shown in their default order
> > > > again.
> > > > Today I tried to open KMail stand alone (without Kontact) to
> > > > see if it would behave differently. In stand alone mode it
> > > > remember which columns I had selected when it is opened, but
> > > > not their order nor their width. And now I can't open KMail
> > > > embedded in Kontact anymore. When I open Kontact, it opens
> > > > KMail in a separate Window. If I close it and select another
> > > > application in Kontact and then get back to mail, it opens
> > > > KMail in a separate window again. Sometimes, when I try to
> > > > resize the Subject Column, it will just be pushed to the left
> > > > or to the right with the same width, resizing the column right
> > > > before it instead.
> > > > The font setup to the message list panel have no effect at all.
> > > > The configuration screen is there, but the font is not changed,
> > > > nor its size, color or other attributes.
> > > > When a thread is deleted with CTRL+DEL, some random message
> > > > that was after it is selected, instead of the one right after
> > > > the deleted thread. There are also other minor problems, but
> > > > I've reported the bugs and can live with them until they're
> > > > fixed. The ones described above, however, are disturbing me
> > > > very much. Is there any workaround for any of them while
> > > > they're not fixed? Is there some change I can make in
> > > > configuration files, or something?
> > >
> > > Try shutting down kontact / kmail
> > >
> > > then rename
> > >
> > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
> >
> > I tried that, and also renaming ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc, but it
> > didn't get any better. The problem of kmail not opening embedded in
> > Kontact, however, has gone away.
> > I also noticed that the problem of all the possible columns always
> > being displayed in message list panel every time kmail is opened
> > happens when kmail is embedded in kontact and kontact is configured
> > to display another application on start up. I kmail is opened stand
> > alone or kontact is configured to show kmail on start up, it
> > remembers the columns that were displayed when it was closed (and
> > their width too, but not their order).
>
> OK... well several problems got worked around. The rest... well the
> rest of it should be bug reported over at kde. It would be a good
> idea to mention that you've reported the bug at bugzilla also.

KMail does not remember message list panel columns and their order:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183515

Headers of columns of which contents are icons should be icons too:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183517

Wrong message is selected when thread is deleted:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183923

KMail does not honor font settings for message list panel:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178402

Changes are needed in the way KMail handles deletion of threaded 
messages:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14060

If you people are experiencing one of theses issues, please add your 
comments and vote for the bugs.

Thanks,

Marcelo