Version: (using KDE KDE 3.95.0) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Hi great KDE-Development-Team, in my opinion (and I talked with Kevin Krammer too) is the fixed search dialog in kmail (and other applications) above the maillist badly named. It should be renamed to "filter", because you filter your e-mails after a name, subject or date. For beginners it would be a renaming better, because no one comes to the idea to use it, if there is a other search dialog in the application-view. You can find this failure is in other applications too.
Note that this is potentially confusing with actual mail filters in KMail. It is easy enough to change, but I'd rather not decide this without the HIG backing that.
Today its confusing with the actual search dialog. But: if you filter emails, this will be done automaticly. If you want to search a email and you type in your search in the filter, it is not a search! The difference is the active and the passive action. For beginners don't know about the difference of filter-dialog and search-dialog.
I have found a screenshot with the correct naming in dolphin: http://liquidat.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dolphin.png So there gives more then one naming-scheme. Please standardize it.
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