Bug 286522

Summary:	message tags sloppy to uselessness
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Cristian Tibirna <tibirna>
Component:	message list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kdenis, montel, tprotopopescu
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Cristian Tibirna 2011-11-13 19:41:35 UTC

Version: 4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3)
OS: Linux

There are no available message tags in Settings/Configure/Appearance/Message Tags, apart from "Important".

The "Filter by Status" combo box that can be displayed above the messages list contains a whole list of possible statuses. These should appear in the "Message tags" dialog so that user can configure them.

In that above-mentioned list, "Important" appears twice, with different icons.

Icons configured in the "Message tags" dialog are not applied when the user marks a message.

The context (right click) "Mark message" submenu of a message is utterly confusing, presenting both an actionable "Mark message as important" menu item, as well as a checkable "Message Tag Important". They don't act on the same internal data, as they are separately actionable, with different results.

The Settings/Configure/Appearance/Message Tags dialog itself is riddled with bugs. Choosing to use a different color for tagged message (given that icons are not correctly applied) makes the default "white" color assigned by default, which is utterly useless: message becomes invisible in the list with the default KDE color pallete. The foreground color of the current pallete should be the minimum acceptable default.

As you can see, each of the above paragraphs would be elligible for its own bug report. As it is now, kmail is useless for serious e-mail management. A reason to lose our faithful users.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See message above.

Expected Results:
Message tags should work.

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2011-11-13 20:49:12 UTC

"The "Filter by Status" combo box that can be displayed above the messages list
contains a whole list of possible statuses. These should appear in the "Message
tags" dialog so that user can configure them. "
others entries is not tag, so we can configurate it as tags.

Comment 2 tprotopopescu 2012-06-18 16:13:21 UTC

I can confirm this. In the Settings/Configure/Appearance/Message Tags dialog only one tag shows up, and this is a tag from korganizer. None of the tags listed in the "Filter by status" box are there to be edited.

Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:05:12 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 kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 4 Cristian Tibirna 2016-10-11 01:05:41 UTC

Tags seem to work correctly now, "Filter by Status" got removed. I guess this can be called a resolution. So closing this report should be OK.

Comment 5 Denis Kurz 2016-10-12 08:51:52 UTC

Christian, thanks for reporting back, here and on your other bugs.