Bug 147125

Summary: Notes part of Kontact creates unnecessary accessibility issues
Product: [Applications] kontact Reporter: Tero Pesonen <tero>
Component: notesAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: montel
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tero Pesonen 2007-06-23 13:00:47 UTC 
Version:           1.2.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

There were some reports close to, but not exactly the same, as this one. I hope this is not a duplicate.

The Notes part of Kontact displays the note if the cursor is moved on to it. It uses the correct colours and I believe also the correct font, as set (per note bases) in knote. Unfortunately, the note is displayed as much smaller than the actual note created in knote. For me, this means the text on the note is rendered too small to read. I get to see the note, but can't really read it.

I could of course double click on it to open it in an editing window, and see the contents therein, but that questions the whole purpose of having "quick (pre)view" option in the first place. Also, it is frustrating to try quickly check through some old notes in this manner.

If it is for some reason out of question to display the note as knote.rc or some similar declares (why would that be?), at least it should be configurable in Kontact in that case. 

But then, speaking of only simple notes as we are, why on earth should there be more than one desktop-wide settings for how to display them? For something as simple as that it is horrendously counter-consistent.

Another usability problem, and related to that notion, is that the new notes being created in Kontact do not respect the knotes settings either. They are created by default as black on yellow (which I can't read), not as set in knotes. Again, if for some reason it is unreasonable to use knotes settings, then Kontact should have its own Notes settings available. Just because real world sticky notes are yellow (some of the time, when they're not light blue or pink) and some pens write in black, that cannot be forced upon the poor user, unlike claimed in one bug report. 

Now the Notes part is effectively unusable, and one needs to run KNotes applet alongside Kontact in order to employ this functionality, despite Kontact already having it implemented in a componentised fashion. 

Third issue here is, why doesn't the Summary view display the note (When the cursor hovers on its name) as a note? It is shown as a tool tip text or something like that. This hardly makes much sense. If the Notes component displays them as notes, how come the list in Summary view does not?

Thank you for considering these issues for future Kontact/KDE releases.
Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-06-24 13:42:38 UTC 
You filled several issues in one bug report, which is not a got idea.
To summarize, we have:

1) Fonts too small in preview of note
2) New notes created in Kontact do not honor KNote's color settings
3) Preview of note in summary view uses tooltip instead of real note
Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2013-10-17 05:54:11 UTC 
"New notes created in Kontact do not honor KNote's color settings" fixed now
Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 19:23:22 UTC 
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kontact (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Comment 4 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 21:59:34 UTC 
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.