| Summary: | Filter export/import OR separation of filter config file | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Jedd <bko> |
| Component: | filtering | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | avvisi, dave, jaime, opensource |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Jedd
2004-05-28 15:55:09 UTC
*** Bug 51830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 90963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 93526 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This is still a problem. Dunno why more people (dave, jaime, somekool, I'm looking at you) haven't voted for it. emailidentities appeared magically one day - causing a bunch of problems with my sync script between desktop & laptop. Not sure what bug that was trying to fix -- the only reference to 'emailidentities' on bugs.kde is to a recent duplicate of this item (bug 89489). Come on .. you know you really want to create an 'emailfilters' file to sit next to 'emailidentities' this weekend. I strongly agree with jedd@progsoc.org. Syncing desktop and laptop mail preferences is a nonsense hell. Another strong candidate for a separate file is folders' prefences i'm not sure at which level this should be implemented tho... global kde settings sync ? or kmail only ? selectable stuff to be synked ? *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** This particular solution should be implemented by having a separate file for filters. Separate files for various things that need sync'ing is a whole other world of problems. I'd be happy to do some work on this -- I was involved in some similar design work years ago for that other OS, in the days when it had lots of INI files -- but imagine the KDE PIM people have other priorities. The general solution is simple. You separate machine and person aspects of configuration into different files. Ideally into different directories or have different suffixes, so they can be programmatically copied/moved easily, too. It gets complicated though (of course) with exceptions -- printers are part person, and part geographical (machine) dependent, for example. But a basic principle of user .v. machine configuration separation would resolve most cases, and leave a minimum of work handling the exceptions later on. I looked around for a part of the project where this was being dealt with, or at least discussed, a while ago, but never found it. If anyone has some hints .. feel free to share. It's a pretty big hurdle for enterprise implementation. *** Bug 89489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An Export/Import-Filter is not just a question of syncing. I want to change my system from Debian to Suse. Now I have to copy several files from several subdirectories of ~/.kde for every application. I can not copy the whole .kde-directory because of issues with kdemenu and different kde-components. It would be simple to create a tar-archive with every config-file of kmail or kontact. With a GUI you can select the directories and config files, pack them and unpack them later to the right locations. A more simple solution is to create standard backup profiles for konserve or kdar. KMail in trunk and in the enterprise branch now has a filter exporter/importer, which can import from/export to a separate file. Thomas - this is excellent news. Is this a GUI only thing, or can it be scripted somehow (even if only via dcop). As in the original posting, a GUI-only interface decreases the functionality (for me, at least - and I speculate others would also seek something scriptable). This is not scriptable with D-Bus at the moment, and the filters are still saved in the normal KMail configuration file. |