Currently the snippets panel in KMail is either completely there and consuming a massive amount of horizontal space or turned off completely. This is both a waste of space and the additional text (list of snippets) in the composer is distracting from writing a mail. I propose that the snippets panel would be made as one of those vertical-tab-operated panels that you can pull out or close (e.g. in Kate, KDevelop). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable snippets. 2. Add a few snippets. 3. Resize the snippets panel to be readable. 4. See actual results 1. 5. Resize the snippets panel so the actual e-mail composer part of the window is useful. 6. See actual resuts 2. Actual Results: 1. Be amazed at how much horizontal space it consumes. 2. Be frustrated at how you have to chose between a usable composer or a usable snippets, for a normal sized font and a reasonable e-mail composer window. Expected Results: 1. Happily write your e-mail. 2. Pull out the snippets panel when needed. 3. Use the snippet. 4. Close the snippets panel. 5. Enjoy ☺ I would call this a usability bug, but am just too nice to do so :P
Git commit 401f0e81399e71c8932e8130e110df954f13d892 by Montel Laurent. Committed on 13/10/2014 at 11:44. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'KDE/4.14'. Fix Bug 339091 - Make snippets panel in KMail able to hide FIXED-IN: 4.14.3 M +2 -1 kmail/editor/kmcomposewin.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/401f0e81399e71c8932e8130e110df954f13d892
Until now I didn't want to collapse it. But I added a new toolbutton which allows it directly. Regards.
Yay! You rock! :D I can’t wait to test it.