Bug 151238

Summary:	offer identity instead of template selection in reply-to context menu
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny>
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cwickert, luigi.toscano, pancho.s
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219002
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Thomas Moschny 2007-10-23 16:04:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

The context menu for replaying to a an email offers me to use one of my own templates instead of the default one. This is nice, but in most cases not sufficient, because this way I can't properly select the right sender address, language for the spell checker, sending method, and so on.

So, it would instead be much more useful to give the possibility of selecting an identity, which itself is a more abstract concept and by which all the settings mentioned above *and* the right template are specified.

Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2010-03-31 22:36:02 UTC

I agree with Thomas. The current behavior is not intuitive and has some pitfalls as described in bug 219002. Should we close this bug and discuss everything there?

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:01:43 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:24:53 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

Comment 4 Christoph Wickert 2012-08-22 19:59:26 UTC

Yes it is, however I can neither reopen the bug nor change the component to kmail2.

Comment 5 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-22 20:27:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I agree with Thomas. The current behavior is not intuitive and has some
> pitfalls as described in bug 219002. Should we close this bug and discuss
> everything there?

Does this still apply?

Comment 6 Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf 2012-11-26 21:28:09 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Does this still apply?

Underlying problem (Bug #219002) seems to be fixed in 4.10, so let's wait until that one is rolled out to see if everything's fine.
I personally suppose though that the UI proposed here is still preferable, but let's see.