Bug 382562

Summary:	Hidden menu in kmail composer: no (obvious?) way to get it back (or hide it)
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Achim Bohnet <ach>
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	winter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.5.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://commits.kde.org/kmail/f1bafd1a4e30ea1ab1bf1bf2d57adf3322a8b27e	Version Fixed In:	5.8.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Achim Bohnet 2017-07-21 10:31:17 UTC

KDE neon user edition: 5.5.3: For whatever reason the menu in the my kmail composer is hidden.  Now there no obvious way to get it back:

 * Crtl-M, or Ctrl-<modifier>-M does not work (shift,alt,super)
 * No RMB Menu has such an action.
 * I've created a new user: kmail composer has menu, but I've found no way
   to hide the menu. I've expected to get a hint how to undo when hidding.

Expected Behaviour:

* Ctrl-Shift-M  hide/shows menu (I guess Ctrl-M is in use by the input/text fields, so ctrl-shift has to be used like in konsole)
* A menu item in Settings to show/hide menu like in kmail main window.

Achim

P.S. in b.k.o kmail version 5.5.3 is not in the list of available versions. Hint hint ;-)
P.P.S I assume that menu was hidden when switching the global menu: menu plasmoid, window title and application, I'll file a new report when I can reproduce how to hide the menu

Comment 1 Allen Winter 2017-07-21 11:47:39 UTC

Look in .config/kmail2rc

search for the [Composer] section
in there you'll probably see the line "MenuBar=Disabled"..  remove that line.

You'll want to quit Kontact/Kmail first.

This happened to me once when I was playing with various Window Manager settings, I believe.  I'm not sure if this is a KMail bug or some kind of plasma/WM bug.

Comment 2 Achim Bohnet 2017-07-21 12:32:42 UTC

Thx, Allen!!  I've my menu back :-)

Nevertheless IMHO, that's not 'obvious' for the average desktop/pim user.
So a shortcut + menu entry would be very welcome.

Thx again Allen and all PIMsters for all your work!
Achim

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2017-12-26 06:04:11 UTC

Git commit f1bafd1a4e30ea1ab1bf1bf2d57adf3322a8b27e by Laurent Montel.
Committed on 26/12/2017 at 06:03.
Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'.

Fix Bug 382562 - Hidden menu in kmail composer: no (obvious?) way to get it back (or hide it)

FIXED-IN: 5.8.0

(adding action for show or not menubar)

M  +26   -0    src/editor/kmcomposerwin.cpp
M  +3    -0    src/editor/kmcomposerwin.h
M  +2    -1    src/kmcomposerui.rc
M  +7    -0    src/settings/kmail.kcfg.cmake

https://commits.kde.org/kmail/f1bafd1a4e30ea1ab1bf1bf2d57adf3322a8b27e

Comment 4 Achim Bohnet 2017-12-27 09:38:03 UTC

Thx a lot Laurent!