Bug 192530 - Progress bar should reflect progress through multiple folders
Summary: Progress bar should reflect progress through multiple folders
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: GUI (show other bugs)
Version: 1.11.2
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Keywords: junior-jobs
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Reported: 2009-05-13 04:38 UTC by Brendon Higgins
Modified: 2012-08-19 00:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Brendon Higgins 2009-05-13 04:38:22 UTC
Version:           1.11.2 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Hi,

I've been using dimap to get my mail. After I "Check Mail In" kmail's progress bar in the bottom-left corner flicks through 0 to 100% many times, once for every time it checks and grabs messages from each folder in my email account. It's been like this for as long as I can recall, but it just occurred to me how weird that behaviour is.

Flicking through 0 to 100% many times only tells you that things are progressing, but it gives no indication of how far along the process actually has gone. That makes the entire idea of using a percentage progress bar pointless. IMO the progress bar should indicate the total progress of the current operation (in this case, updating all folders), and should hit 100% if and only if all folders have been updated.

The current situation might make some sense when the details panel is up, since you can see which folder the operation is currently up to and estimate (by the alphabetical ordering) how many more there are to go, but otherwise it just doesn't make sense.
Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:58:48 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:13:18 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.