KMail has (had?) an option to display only Subject/From/To lines in the preview pane. Reproducible: Always
> KMail has (had?) an option to display only Subject/From/To > lines in the preview pane. What exactly would you like to have? If it's about the headers displayed in the part of screen which shows one e-mail and you would like to get rid of Date, Tags etc, then I don't think this will happen.
For a random message, I'm having the message pane half-filled with headers: From, Sender, Reply-To, Mailing List, To, Cc, Subject, Date, Tags, plus a blank line and then finally the MIME tabs. KMail 1.13 nicely uses most of the space for the actual message.
A setting to handle this (globally) seems silly, but one might pimp the header (seeking for better use of screen estate)? Eg. CC can be a looooooong list (of littme general use), one coud toggle it pressing the CC label CC: [...] CC: John.Doe@mail.com, Jane.Doe@mail.com, Homer.Simpson@Springfield.com Date could slide into the From row, right aligned (and loose its label) Subject could loose its label and be fontsize increased instead (to stress it) (conditional) Reply to could be attached to from Sth. like this? ----------------------- From: John.Doe@mail.com (replies to Jane.Doe@mail.com) Today, 15:23 CEST To: Marge.Simpson@Springfield.com CC: [...] Beware Bart, he's gone crazy now and gained some cans o' paint!
First of all, the headers are only shown in case they are physically present in the displayed message. In my opinion, randomly hiding some of them is a bad idea, but I'm all for making the represenation prettier *iff* the end result still conveys the same information. This is hard to judge without screenshots, ASCII-art doesn't do it a service, IMHO. > Eg. CC can be a looooooong list (of littme general use), one coud toggle it > pressing the CC label > CC: [...] > CC: John.Doe@mail.com, Jane.Doe@mail.com, Homer.Simpson@Springfield.com Cc is not special, any header with a list of e-mail addresses can become a header which is too long. I'm OK with wrapping these headers in some click-to-expand manner based on how many recipients are present in there. However, please don't set the auto-hide threshold too low.
I think that the current state of the UI reflects some points originally requested here. We won't be going for full configurability ("allow users to specify arbitrary headers to show").