Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources OS: Linux It would be useful if the status bar told you what the program was actually doing. You can see that something is happening from the Progress bar, but it would be useful if the status bar contained messages like: Connecting to imap://user@foo.bar.com/ ... Authenticating ... Checking for new mail ... Downloading Headers from ... Downlaoding message Body ... Sorting mailbox ... Verifying signature. done. This would allow people to know what is going on and provide better feedback to the user.
I totally agree with this. For example I set "Check mail on startup" and I set kmail to prompt for password on startup. Once I put my password and press OK. I wish I could see something like: Authenticating user@foor.bar.com... Checking for new mail ... etc.
It seems that when I go check mail manually the status bar gets updated but not when the program starts... Also, I noticed that when you move mouse over links/addresses the status bar also gets updated! Would it be nice to save old message, put the link/address there for the time the mouse is over it and when it leaves revert to the old message? If I can have some pointers to where in the code I should look I might actually send a patch for both things discussed above...I'm not much familiar with KDE but I'm willing to try in order to familiarize myself with KDE...
The new statusbar which will be visible in KDE 3.3/KMail 1.7 will be more detailled... I think you will like it. But you request even information per retrieved message, so I'll tranfer you to an other wish for that part. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58182 ***