Bug 122977

Summary: Please add support for categories
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Eugene Nine <enine>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eugene Nine 2006-03-02 15:15:25 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

I thought this was mentioned on the mailing lsts and someone was going to request it but I couldn't find it in a search.
I would like the ability to tag messages with a category, similar to how korganizer and kaddressbook can tag events/appointments and contacts with categories.
I currently use categories a lot, assigning 'family', 'friends', and different categories based on jobs or projects.  This helps tie contacts together and events/appointments as well.  For example I do some side consulting work and a small company and it may be with different clients of that company.  I tag every appointment and client contact with a category to I can easily find them when I report my hours.  In Kmail I currently have to store all mail to and from that company and its clients in one folder to keep track of it easily and sometimes I may need to e-mail vendors for support of their products or sign up on mailing lists.  Those mailing lists I typically keep in a folder specific to that list so it would be nice to tag those seperate folders and/or messages with the same category as all the company/client mails to keep them together.

1.  First thing that neesd to happen is all the PIM tools need to share the same category list, currently adding a category to korganizer does not add it to kaddressbook.
2.  Add the ability to tag a message with a category from that shared list and store that category in the message somewhere.
3.  Add a colum so the categories can be seen/sorted
4.  Add the ability to search and / or filter based on a category
5.  Add the ability to automatically assign a category using the filters.
Comment 1 Ismail Onur Filiz 2006-03-03 01:13:29 UTC 
Please check bug 15391 , comment #19 . The category sharing among kontact modules won't happen until kde 4.0, but I am planning to add features 2-5 to my patch in the future.
Comment 2 Thiago Macieira 2006-03-03 20:21:04 UTC 
I'm almost sure there are other bugs requesting this feature.

Ismail, could you attach your patch here?
Comment 3 Ismail Onur Filiz 2007-07-25 03:23:14 UTC 
SVN commit 692089 by onurf:

Finally, port the tagging feature to KDE4. It is in a slightly worse state than what I had for KDE 3.5, 
but since the difficult part is over, I hope I will improve it over time.

Currently it has the following features:
- Ability to tag emails (with possibly more than one tag)
- Changing the appearance of message headers (font and text color) according to the message's tags.
- Configuration of tags through a new tab called "Message Tags" on the "Configure KMail->Appearance" configuration page.
- You can add toolbar buttons for easy tagging.
- You can assign shortcuts to tags.
- Tagging through the right-click menu.
- Quick filtering using the combobox for "status" filtering. See the screenshot.
       
Some short-term todos:
- Incorporate Nepomuk
- A column for tags in the header view
- Incorporate Ellen's usability comments

Some long-term todos:
- Filter action for automatic tagging
- Searching based on tags ( which enables having 'tag folders' through use of search folders )

I'm sorry that I didn't have enough time to test my current commit completely. In the last two days, I have been constantly compiling
kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase to keep up with very frequent changes. I finally was able to compile all at once:)

BUGS: 50409

CCBUG: 15391, 122977



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