Bug 125674

Summary:	Folder context menu is inconsistent with main menu
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Diederik van der Boor <vdboor>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jjm
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Diederik van der Boor 2006-04-16 16:23:03 UTC

Version:           1.9.1 (using KDE 3.5.2 Level "a" , SUSE 10.0 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.13-15.8-default

The context menu for folders has a different layout compared to the main "Folder" menu. At first sight you assume both menu's are identical, but some features they are only found in either one of the menu's. This becomes confusing when you're looking for certain options.

This includes:
- "Mailing list management" (only in main menu, used by be in the context menu too).
- delete and move to trash are swapped.
- separators are at different positions.
- the "New subfolder" option is named differently in the main menu, but both options do the same.
- Expire/compact options cannot be not found in the main menu.

Please take care to fix this problem..

Thanks in advice!

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2006-04-18 20:41:03 UTC

The menus now differ for usability reasons, but you have some valid points there.

PS: I agree with you 100%, despite the usability reports.

Comment 2 Diederik van der Boor 2006-04-18 22:48:03 UTC

Thanks a lot for the quick feedback and positive response. :-)

Does this mean the menu will stay the same for now, or is open for discussion?

Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2006-04-19 09:30:59 UTC

The nitpicking (order of items and separators) can be solved easily. I hope it's fixed soon.

Making the two menus the same is very unlikely.

Comment 4 Jonathan Marten 2006-11-22 17:37:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92905 ***