Bug 254530 - enabling preferring HTML lost several other settings
Summary: enabling preferring HTML lost several other settings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.13.5
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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: 264578 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-10-18 09:23 UTC by Silver Salonen
Modified: 2012-07-12 11:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Silver Salonen 2010-10-18 09:23:12 UTC 
Version:           1.13.5 (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

I enabled "Prefer HTML to plain text" from Security and by doing that KMail lost several settings, eg: message list view, system tray, date format, message window options, maybe smth more (I can't remember everything I had customized).

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2010-10-18 10:44:22 UTC 
I don't understand, it doesn't change other settings.
Are you sure that you didn't click on "default" button before to applu ?
Comment 2 Silver Salonen 2010-10-18 10:56:55 UTC 
Yes, I'm pretty sure. The "Defaults" button controls only settings for the current section (eg. "Security"), right? In my case options from other sections got changed/reset too.
Comment 3 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:00:58 UTC 
I can confirm this with KMail 1.13.5 on KUbuntu 10.10 Maverick (KDE 4.5.1)

I just switched the other way, to prefer plain to HTML, made sure I clicked on OK, and at least the following changed:

- message list aggregation to 'activity by date'. I have never had that setting on any of my folders and don't know where it possibly came from
- theme to 'Classic', using columns 'subject', 'receiver', and 'date'. I used 'Fancy' for as long as I remember, probably since I've been on KDE 4

I didn't notice any change to the system tray (still disabled) or date (fancy) settings that the original poster mentioned.
Comment 4 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:15:49 UTC 
Another option that was changed: 'show HTML status bar' was disabled.
Comment 5 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:21:11 UTC 
*** Bug 264578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:27:26 UTC 
Interestingly, now I can switch back-and-forth between preferring HTML and
plain text, and the folder settings do not change any more.

This was the first time I changed the setting for preferred viewing format in a
long time. Is it possible that the setting was recorded in an older config file
format, and that this version of KMail didn't deal very well with it?
Comment 7 Davor Cubranic 2011-01-28 06:35:43 UTC 
More settings that were affected:
- templates for replies to sender, replies to all/list, and forwarding are now all %BLANK.
Comment 8 Davor Cubranic 2011-02-06 03:34:57 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> More settings that were affected:
> - templates for replies to sender, replies to all/list, and forwarding are now
> all %BLANK.

And even after I choose "defaults", these templates are not reset to what the defaults are on a clean install. I'm splitting the non-working defaults as a new bug 265569.
Comment 9 Laurent Montel 2012-07-12 11:28:00 UTC 
fixed in 4.8.3