Bug 415015

Summary: hide unread email count from taskbar icons
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: ederag <edera>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: jjm
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.10.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description ederag 2019-12-10 13:37:42 UTC 
After upgrading to openSUSE Leap 15.1, kmail still works fine, good !

Yet I have been puzzled by the 9,999+ label over the icon in the task bar.
This is actually the unread email count newly added by
https://phabricator.kde.org/D9841

This is useless for 9999+ unread mails
(a mailing list I'm either searching in,
or filtering on previously read messages);
but even if the count was meaningful,
I would much prefer to hide this unread count
when not in the task of consulting mails.

Is there any way to turn this feature off ? (none found yet)

KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.8
KDE Frameworks 5.55.0
Qt 5.9.7 (built against 5.9.7)
Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2019-12-10 14:05:20 UTC 
KMail settings / Appearance / General tab. There's a "show unread email in taskbar" box.
Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2019-12-10 14:09:09 UTC 
It's probably not available in your version however.
Comment 3 ederag 2019-12-10 14:32:09 UTC 
Indeed, not there yet. 
Good to know it is configurable in newer versions, thanks !
Comment 4 Jonathan Marten 2019-12-10 15:22:21 UTC 
Specific folders, e.g. the one holding a large mailing list, can also be excluded from the new mail count:

Menu bar - Folder - Folder Properties - General tab

Turn off "Act on new/unread mail in this folder".