I often use to mark my messages as important or action item. Now this has stopped working. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mark a message as important. 2. Notice the color chosen for that flash briefly then go back to the normal text color. Actual Results: The colors for important/action item flashes briefly when you mark a message. The same happens if you change the color to be used and click Apply/OK. Expected Results: The marked messages should keep the color chosen for it.
It's not a problem in kmail. it's nepomuk_indexer which add a nepomuk tag which doesn't have color for text.
Then what are the colors under "Customize Visual Appearance"=>"Colors" for? I can mark my messages as important or Action Item (which are present in that list), but the colors for them don't show. Under message tags I can choose ToDo, but not Action item. It might be very clever, but it is highly unintuitive.
*** Bug 308171 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
To add to the confusion. I configured the "Important" nepomuk tag to have red text, and I had about the same functionality as in previous versions. Now I just removed the "Important" tag from a message, but the text is still red. Restarting KMail doesn't help. I now see that this is the same as Bug #308171
Git commit 05f5c0cad34198202ac0fc8b5f9d9f1f5604cd20 by Montel Laurent. Committed on 15/10/2012 at 20:04. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'. Fix Bug 307600 - colors for marked mails disappear don't allow to delete status tag. Fix Rename tag (don't autorize to create 2 tags with same name). Don't allow to change tag from status (as replied etc.) FIXED-IN: 4.10 M +40 -9 kmail/configuredialog.cpp M +13 -0 kmail/tag.cpp M +1 -0 kmail/tag.h M +2 -0 kmail/tagactionmanager.cpp M +2 -0 kmail/tagselectdialog.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/05f5c0cad34198202ac0fc8b5f9d9f1f5604cd20