Version: (using KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: SuSE RPMs I just thought what could save me a lot of time, and I guess a lot of people. Variant templates. Let's say I define reply template. Fine. But then, really, for several people I use different phrases, so I would like to have [ to address ] my friend 1 | my friend 2 the template is then like this: ...................... Then, if I reply Kmail would search for the first match in variant templates, if found -- template would be used. If not -- global/default reply template would be used. The same for forward -- however here it could lead to some confusion, because most likely it would be dependent not "from" but "to". But anyway, for reply I think it would be great :-)
Hmm, I thought about it a bit more and I go with the wish even further: a) keeps the things like they are now, just simple text + "macros" b) provide script language (I mean it could be Python, bash, perl, whatever) with predefined variables, or one global hash table So when you (as user) would like to define "reply" you could do it as today, or select: [ ] run script And in the same dialog you will write the script, and for scripted templates kmail will run them and insert the result of the script. Why such complex (? it is not that complex, after all running script it would be not Kmail part, but interpreter) wish -- it could be one of killer features of KMail. This way user could not only react to specific addresses, but also to a gender of the author! For polish it would be a joy to see automatic responses genderated Szanowna Pani, for women, and for men Szanowny Panie. Oh, and another note, since Kmail part would be only feeding global hash, and getting the result it could be even better [ ] run the script in < Ruby / Perl / Python / you name it > Now I vote definitively for scripted templates :-)
This is to some extend possible, with the "Process with external programs" commands. But I guess the addressee is not passed on to the script, but I'm not sure.
Thomas thank you, however current possibilities are not well suited for scripting. With system command you can't get values of macros echo %QUOTE produces %QUOTE and the rest are limited to predefined values only. But it is closer than I thought. It is a pity I am busy to near end of the year, I would like to implement this feature :-)
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