Update to 4.11.1 Changed Kmail Settings

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Sunday 22 of September 2013 11:53:33 Garry T. Williams wrote:
> After a recent update to 4.11.1, my settings in Kmail were changed to
> include detailed notifications of new mail messages.  I previously had
> notifications set completely off.
> 
> Of course, it was easy to reset this (after I found where to do it
> again).  But why would an update mess with my settings?  (And what
> other settings were changed?)

None of your settings has been changed.  Notifications about new emails are now 
handled by a dedicated Akonadi agent instead of KMail, so your KMail 
notification settings is not used anymore. We have decided to enable the agent 
by default to better advertise this new feature.

The advantage of a dedicated notification agent is, that it can show 
notifications even when KMail is not running, you can configure to be notified 
only for certain folders (for instance for inbox, but not for mailing list 
folder) and the notifications are much nicer - when there's only one new email, 
the notification will show sender, subject and start of the text (and sender 
photo when available); when there are multiple new emails, the notifications is 
like "3 new emails in inbox, 1 new email in Fedora-KDE".

Cheers,
Dan

> This seems like a very bad policy.

-- 
Daniel Vrátil
KDE Desktop Team
Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

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