Bug 357313

Summary:	Column-width in the main window, i.e. "subject", "from", "date" not kept, crowded to left
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	wodenhof <wodenhof>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	axel.braun, foss, gpulido, kdebugs, montel, stefano.d
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description wodenhof 2015-12-29 17:56:43 UTC

After start of Kmail5 the headers over the main window like "subject", "from", "date" etc. are compressed to a few millimeters width at the left side. To make entries below readable, every column has to be re-sized with the mouse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Kmail
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Expected Results:  
Columns should keep the size assigned in the previous session.

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2016-02-24 08:16:05 UTC

I confirm it.

Comment 2 tony den haan 2016-09-25 16:04:24 UTC

similar problem here: i only saw the date column, when i resized leftmost i also had the Sender column. "Adjust column sizes" does nothing at all, so at the moment kmail is unusable for me.


KDE Frameworks 5.18.0
Qt 5.5.1 (built against 5.5.1)
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

Comment 3 tony den haan 2016-09-27 11:18:11 UTC

i noticed sometimes the lost columns are all hidden in the rightmost millimeter. You can only see this when pulling the horizontal scrollbar to the right. IMO a very simple fix would be to define a minumum size for columns.

Comment 4 stefano.d 2016-10-17 20:38:51 UTC

I can confirm this.
KDE NEON 5.8.1
KMail  5.3.0

I won't use KMail if it doesn't fix this annoyance.

Comment 5 Axel Braun 2019-11-01 08:41:24 UTC

Kmail 5.12.2 - still the same issue. For whatever reason, KMail cant keep the width of the columns, 'Date' gots always squashed

Comment 6 Axel Braun 2020-05-17 16:36:35 UTC

Still an issue in 5.14.0

Comment 7 Christian Reiner 2020-06-16 06:53:17 UTC

I still have this issue on current KDE Neon using KMail and Kontact in version 4.20 as delivered by the distribution. 

It does not always happen. I have the impression that it mostly happens when I close KMail before closing the KDE session. So it could be connected to different strategies of how an application performs the shutdown.

Comment 8 Axel Braun 2020-06-16 17:52:57 UTC

(In reply to Christian Reiner from comment #7)

> It does not always happen. I have the impression that it mostly happens when
> I close KMail before closing the KDE session. So it could be connected to
> different strategies of how an application performs the shutdown.

I tested this today (just log-out, no reboot) and could not determine a difference between the two cases. Spacing resp. column width was kept properly, which was usually not the case
(KMail 5.14.1 /20.04.0 )

Comment 9 German Pulido 2020-11-03 20:55:25 UTC

I'm also having this issue on Fedora 33 (kmail-20.08.1-1.fc33.x86_64). Almost 5 years and this bug still lives on.