Bug 254530

Summary:	enabling preferring HTML lost several other settings
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Silver Salonen <silver.salonen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	cubranic, montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.13.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Silver Salonen 2010-10-18 09:23:12 UTC

Version:           1.13.5 (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

I enabled "Prefer HTML to plain text" from Security and by doing that KMail lost several settings, eg: message list view, system tray, date format, message window options, maybe smth more (I can't remember everything I had customized).

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2010-10-18 10:44:22 UTC

I don't understand, it doesn't change other settings.
Are you sure that you didn't click on "default" button before to applu ?

Comment 2 Silver Salonen 2010-10-18 10:56:55 UTC

Yes, I'm pretty sure. The "Defaults" button controls only settings for the current section (eg. "Security"), right? In my case options from other sections got changed/reset too.

Comment 3 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:00:58 UTC

I can confirm this with KMail 1.13.5 on KUbuntu 10.10 Maverick (KDE 4.5.1)

I just switched the other way, to prefer plain to HTML, made sure I clicked on OK, and at least the following changed:

- message list aggregation to 'activity by date'. I have never had that setting on any of my folders and don't know where it possibly came from
- theme to 'Classic', using columns 'subject', 'receiver', and 'date'. I used 'Fancy' for as long as I remember, probably since I've been on KDE 4

I didn't notice any change to the system tray (still disabled) or date (fancy) settings that the original poster mentioned.

Comment 4 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:15:49 UTC

Another option that was changed: 'show HTML status bar' was disabled.

Comment 5 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:21:11 UTC

*** Bug 264578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:27:26 UTC

Interestingly, now I can switch back-and-forth between preferring HTML and
plain text, and the folder settings do not change any more.

This was the first time I changed the setting for preferred viewing format in a
long time. Is it possible that the setting was recorded in an older config file
format, and that this version of KMail didn't deal very well with it?

Comment 7 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:35:43 UTC

More settings that were affected:
- templates for replies to sender, replies to all/list, and forwarding are now all %BLANK.

Comment 8 Davor Cubranic 2011-02-06 03:34:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> More settings that were affected:
> - templates for replies to sender, replies to all/list, and forwarding are now
> all %BLANK.

And even after I choose "defaults", these templates are not reset to what the defaults are on a clean install. I'm splitting the non-working defaults as a new bug 265569.

Comment 9 Laurent Montel 2012-07-12 11:28:00 UTC

fixed in 4.8.3