| Summary: | Make the displayed folder name configurable | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Stefan Briesenick <sbriesen> |
| Component: | folder list | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bjoern, inyourface, luigi.toscano |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Stefan Briesenick
2003-02-27 21:38:50 UTC
You can select your sent and drafts folder in the identity. I'm sorry but it's simply not possible to translate these folders because you can select every folder as trash/drafts/sent and therefore it won't be sensible to change the name. That is possible with the inbox as it's a system folder which always has the same name. yes, I know. But you haven't read it correctly! make 'Sent' and 'Drafts' configurable as 'Trash'! You can select the Trash folder in version 1.5, but you can not select 'Sent' and 'Drafts'. And that is the problem! If you could configure your special folders, then KMail could translate them, because you know the meanings of that folders! Mozilla Mail do that exactly this way and it works great! regards Stefan I'll try again. You _can_ configure your special folders. Not in the account but in your identity. And it would be possible to translate them because we know the meaning. I simpy don't think it's a good idea as the original name of the folder might be completely different. Imagine you have a folder "Spam" and you select it as your trash folder. Do you think it's a good idea that this is magically displayed as "Trash" or "Papierkorb" (depending on your language)? I don't. I'm _sure_ we would even get bugreports about this ;-) Perhaps it would be a good idea to automatically display the correct icon but there are definitely some things that are more important. ok, Icons would be a nice solution. :-D but: if you marked a folder named 'My collected Spam' as your 'Trash' folder, then IT IS your Trash folder, no matter how you named it... The reason, why I said Kmail needs such feature is: many Email-Clients wants the special folders named in english (namely 'Trash', 'Drafts', 'Sent Mail'). Mozilla Mail for example creates *always* a folder 'Trash' and shows it in your native language. So you don't have a chance to name them in your native language. And that is confusing for i.e. my mother; she don't speaks english very well. I see your problem, but there should be a comfortable solution. Icons would be ok, but perhaps you can introduce a switch '[X] special folder names in native language' or such, which is 'off' by default. Stefan or introduce a mapping list: folder | shown as -----------+--------------------- Trash | Papierkorb Drafts | Entw OK, accepted, I reopen this bug and change the wording. OK? yes, thanks! what happend? It's NOT included in KDE 3.2 :-( remind, remind, remind. KDE 3.3, still not implemented. Should be an easy task! @ sbriesen@gmx.de: Feel free to implement this. wuahh. well. I'm able to do this technically. But: I need years to understand the code before I can hack in this little thingy. I think, it's *much* easier for the main developers (who knows their code best) to implement this. It's not a major task. I only asked to make the displayed foldernames configurable. So: real name: Trash displayed name: Papierkorb if "displayed name" is not set, then it is the "real name" by default. OK,two years later and still the situation didn't change :( Is this such an difficult hack? The translated names are a very important feature for me cause my parents wouldn't accept the original (english) names in there mail app - and I DONT want to go with thunderbird in a KDE environment ... Please stop begging for implementing it. It's open source after all, use your own skills or be patient until someone else steps up to voluntary implement it. Thank you. *** Bug 161145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** What about the solution to translate these folders by hand? Simply add fields to enter the user definied names for these folders. Every user can translate them himself in his language. Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented. Thank you for your understanding. Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2. |