Bug 81272

Summary:	Use more than one line per mail in message list
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	charta
Component:	message list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	craig.zheng, erik, megasurferschwelm, michael.jaeger, Regnaron, sven.burmeister, szosel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description charta 2004-05-10 19:49:19 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:          Linux

I'm using Long folder list and message preview pane next to message list. That is very comfortable, but takes a lot of screen space and some information just does not fit in screen width. Actually folder list and preview pane takes most of the screen, and in the best scenario you can see only Subject in message list, but NO Sender and Date, which are, important too, of course. 

Proposal to fix this is to make message entry in list high enough to contain Subject highlighted and visible, and just _below_ it Sender [and] Date (customisable) in small font, and all these are centred or auto adjusted to available width of message list - i.e. normal list, if preview pane is disabled or resized to the minimum.

The same thing can be seen in M$ Outlook 2003, and such addition to KMail will make it even better and more productive.

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-12 20:12:22 UTC

*** Bug 89823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-12 20:12:33 UTC

*** Bug 99811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-12 20:12:45 UTC

*** Bug 144129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-04-12 20:22:55 UTC

*** Bug 106564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 S. Burmeister 2007-07-14 16:23:38 UTC

Is this finally going to be implemented for KDE4?

Comment 6 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-14 16:37:19 UTC

> Is this finally going to be implemented for KDE4?

There are no plans to implement this, mainly because of the low number of 
developers for KDEPIM.

Patches are of course always welcome.

Comment 7 S. Burmeister 2007-07-15 15:22:19 UTC

Which source-file contains the funtion that defines the header-list-item, i.e. which file would one have to work on in order to change the current header-list's look?

Comment 8 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-15 15:31:34 UTC

>Which source-file contains the funtion that defines the header-list-item, i.e. which file would one have to work on in order to change the current header-list's look? 
That would be kmheaders.h / kmheaders.cpp I guess.
Note that new features are not allowed in KDE 3.5 anymore, so you would need to modify the KDE 4 version.
In the KDE 4 version, the KMHeaders class needs to be ported from K3ListView to QListWidget (or similar) first, as the semantics for using more than one line for an item probably changed too much.

Comment 9 Thomas McGuire 2007-11-01 19:54:21 UTC

*** Bug 151710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Thomas McGuire 2007-11-22 16:43:53 UTC

*** Bug 152718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Erik Ramseth 2007-11-22 16:48:10 UTC

In case anyone is confused as to what this might be like, here is a ASCII mockup I made in another bug I posted (not sure why I was unable to find this bug in the searches):

==================================== 
 Message # | Column 1 | Column 2    | 
 ==================================== 
 Message 1 | Subject  | Date        | 
           | Sender   | Day of week | 
 ------------------------------------ 
 Message 2 | Subject  | Date        | 
           | Sender   | Day of week | 
 ------------------------------------

Comment 12 Thomas McGuire 2008-11-07 20:39:40 UTC

SVN commit 881321 by tmcguire:

Merge the KMail summer of code branch back to trunk.

This brings a reworked folder tree and and a new message list, which is much more powerful than the old one.
New features include grouping, multiline items and the ability to customize just about everything of the look of the message list.
Also, we have a tabbed interface for opening more than one folder at once now.
An important aspect of the new message list is that drawing speed is now fast again (there was a regression in Q3ListView that
made huge folders a real pain to navigate, reading commit folders was not a nice thing to do).
There are probably more things which I forgot to list here.

Also, this is big step forward in getting rid of Qt3Support in KMail, now just some tiny bits are left.

Many thanks to SoC student Szymon Stefanek for his awesome work on his project! I can't stress enough how great this
achivment is. He even added very good API documentation to his classes :)

This requires the lastest version of qt-copy, otherwise you'll get mysterious crashes in Qt painting code from time to time.
We hope that this patch will be added to the next Qt 4.4.x version.

And finally, this merge also brings many regressions, which is not unnatural for such a big change.
In the remaining time before the KDE 4.2 release, we'll have to work on those to get it polished and regression-free.
Help here is always needed, and is a good opportunity to start working on KMail, since many regressions are low hanging fruit.

It also means the message list and the folder tree need a bit of testing.
If you find bugs, report them under the "new message list" and "new folder tree" component of the bug tracker, thanks.

I also plan to setup a wiki page with known regressions.

CCMAIL: kde-pim@kde.org
GUI:
CCBUG: 117808
BUG: 163469
FEATURE: 18170
FEATURE: 32400
FEATURE: 42107
FEATURE: 45526
FEATURE: 81272
FEATURE: 90142
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(and probably many others)

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 A             kmail/messagelistview/core/aggregationeditor.cpp   [License: GPL (v2+)]
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 A             kmail/messagelistview/core/comboboxutils.cpp   [License: GPL (v2+)]
 A             kmail/messagelistview/core/comboboxutils.h   [License: GPL (v2+)]
 A             kmail/messagelistview/core/configureaggregationsdialog.cpp   [License: GPL (v2+)]
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 A             kmail/messagelistview/core/configureskinsdialog.cpp   [License: GPL (v2+)]
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