Bug 369247

Summary:	Kontact: settings between Kontact and components (e.g. KMail) are not synchronized
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ingo, kdenis, montel, steve
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.15.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Till Schäfer 2016-09-23 15:56:36 UTC

When running Kontact, there are two setting dialogs: 

1. Settings -> Configure Kontact
2. Settings -> Configure <Component> (e.g. KMail)

(2) represents a subset of the options provided by (1). 

If one configures a setting in one dialog, the settings are not synced to the other dialog.  E.g. when setting an option in (1), clicking OK, and then entering (2), the old configuration (configuration state before the changes made in (1)) is shown in (2). independent of the dialog (1 or 2): the last applied configuration is always the used one. I.e. the (1) does not dominate (2) or vice versa. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2016-09-24 08:07:19 UTC

Ok
could you give me an example please ?

Comment 2 Till Schäfer 2016-09-24 15:28:41 UTC

sure, this is the example where I observed it first: 

1. goto Settings -> Configure KMail -> Composer -> "Reply and forward using HTML if present" and change the setting to enabeld (lets assume it was disabled and we have enabled it now / it also works vice versa) and press OK.
2. goto Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Composer -> "Reply and forward using HTML if present". The setting is still disabled.

I have observed, that this is one way only. I.e. you need to change the components setting first and check the kontact setting afterwards.

Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2017-01-11 12:54:40 UTC

Confirmed for 5.4.0 using the example setting from Comment 2.

Comment 4 Ingo Steuwer 2017-11-22 16:17:18 UTC

I can reproduce this with the "Prefer HTML" settings (Kmail -> Security). System is Ubuntu 16.04 with KDE backports enabled (kontact package version 4:16.12.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu17.04~ppa2)

Comment 5 Till Schäfer 2020-11-23 23:36:34 UTC

still valid for 5.15.3