Bug 188169

Summary:	Menu Buttons for "Check Mail", "Reply", and "Forward" do show drop-down lists
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Jan Ritzerfeld <kde>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	luigi.toscano, montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Jan Ritzerfeld 2009-03-26 15:37:13 UTC

Version:           1.11.1 (using KDE 4.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

When I started using KMail of KDE4, I did not manage to get the menu buttons for "Check Mail", "Reply", and "Forward" to show their menu. Since other people were obviously able to access these menus, I spent some to figure out what I was doing wrong:
I pressed the menu button, held down the left mouse button, and then moved the mouse pointer to the position where I knew the menu would appear. The last step prevented the menu from showing the menu! You have to keep the mouse pointer over the menu button until it opens.

Perhaps it would be less confusing to use the same splitted buttons like Konqueror does for "Back", "Up", and "Forward"? The menu buttons used in KMail seem to be designed for showing the menu instantly, like the menu button for the KGet integration in Konqueror.

Comment 1 Jaime Torres 2009-03-29 11:00:33 UTC

A global consistency for all kde applications regarding those kinds of buttons will be good.

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:11:17 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 00:14:31 UTC

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

Comment 4 Jan Ritzerfeld 2012-08-19 16:38:27 UTC

It is still valid for kmail2.

Comment 5 Laurent Montel 2012-08-21 14:09:56 UTC

In kmail when just click on button it activates the default action.
In konqueror it will show all action.
So it's not the same method.

If we change it we will able to click on search reply for example (action that we use all the time) in menu.
So we will lose time.
So I will not change it

Comment 6 Jan Ritzerfeld 2012-08-21 14:25:28 UTC

"In konqueror it will show all action." Sorry, but that is simply not true for the Konqueror I am using! Actually, e.g., the back button is split: the left half immediately goes back while the right half shows all possible "actions".