Bug 293653

Summary:	filterbar should be similar like in Thunderbird
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	m.wege
Component:	message list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.99.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/5ef4bc9f6036df957ab9ab578b3fa19e89353689	Version Fixed In:	4.13
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot showing Thunderbird

Description m.wege 2012-02-08 16:56:19 UTC

Version:           1.99.0 (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

I would like to see the filterbar in the message list implemented in a similar way like in thunderbird. I will attach a screenshot of their filterbar. Their way of filterbar has following advantages:
- filter criteria (unreadsare accessible faster since there is no dropdown menu necessary.
- filter criteria can be combined.
- There is a "sticky" item, which allows to choose if the filter should remain in effect, if you change the mail folder.

I can see that an obstacle of implementing this may lay in the fact that Kmail has more possible filter criteria so there could be a problem of making this fitting in gui (at least if there is explaining text with it). I would suggest then that the user could choose which items would appear visible and which would appear in as additional criteria in additional dropdown with selectable items.
Furtheremore I would like to suggest to implement an additional filter critera:
Filter by date range (from/(to)).
I will file this wish item also with Akregator.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1 m.wege 2012-02-08 17:15:14 UTC

Created attachment 68627 [details]
Screenshot showing Thunderbird

Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2012-02-08 17:18:35 UTC

"There is a "sticky" item, which allows to choose if the filter should remain
in effect, if you change the mail folder." already implemented in 4.9

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2014-02-07 07:01:51 UTC

Git commit 09d33f48624d88e8f664bb5a67fce5bee774da78 by Montel Laurent.
Committed on 07/02/2014 at 07:00.
Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'.

Bug 293653 - filterbar should be similar like in Thunderbird

Improve search bar. Now we can specify if you want to search in subject/body/bcc etc.

M  +1    -1    messagelist/core/filter.cpp
M  +1    -0    messagelist/core/filter.h
M  +8    -1    messagelist/core/quicksearchline.cpp
M  +2    -2    messagelist/core/quicksearchline.h
M  +1    -2    messagelist/core/widgetbase.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/09d33f48624d88e8f664bb5a67fce5bee774da78

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2014-02-10 12:25:35 UTC

Git commit 5ef4bc9f6036df957ab9ab578b3fa19e89353689 by Montel Laurent.
Committed on 10/02/2014 at 12:13.
Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'.

Fix Bug 293653 - filterbar should be similar like in Thunderbird

FIXED-IN: 4.13

M  +1    -2    messagelist/core/quicksearchline.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/5ef4bc9f6036df957ab9ab578b3fa19e89353689

Comment 5 m.wege 2014-02-10 23:12:46 UTC

Great. Thank you very much. Could this also be added to Akregator?

Comment 6 Laurent Montel 2014-02-11 06:11:01 UTC

We can't use the same code
and I don't have to adapt akregator perhaps in future but not for 4.13

Regards