Bug 369247 - Kontact: settings between Kontact and components (e.g. KMail) are not synchronized
Summary: Kontact: settings between Kontact and components (e.g. KMail) are not synchro...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kontact
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.15.3
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2016-09-23 15:56 UTC by Till Schäfer
Modified: 2020-11-23 23:36 UTC (History)
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Description Till Schäfer 2016-09-23 15:56:36 UTC 
When running Kontact, there are two setting dialogs: 

1. Settings -> Configure Kontact
2. Settings -> Configure <Component> (e.g. KMail)

(2) represents a subset of the options provided by (1). 

If one configures a setting in one dialog, the settings are not synced to the other dialog.  E.g. when setting an option in (1), clicking OK, and then entering (2), the old configuration (configuration state before the changes made in (1)) is shown in (2). independent of the dialog (1 or 2): the last applied configuration is always the used one. I.e. the (1) does not dominate (2) or vice versa. 

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2016-09-24 08:07:19 UTC 
Ok
could you give me an example please ?
Comment 2 Till Schäfer 2016-09-24 15:28:41 UTC 
sure, this is the example where I observed it first: 

1. goto Settings -> Configure KMail -> Composer -> "Reply and forward using HTML if present" and change the setting to enabeld (lets assume it was disabled and we have enabled it now / it also works vice versa) and press OK.
2. goto Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Composer -> "Reply and forward using HTML if present". The setting is still disabled.

I have observed, that this is one way only. I.e. you need to change the components setting first and check the kontact setting afterwards.
Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2017-01-11 12:54:40 UTC 
Confirmed for 5.4.0 using the example setting from Comment 2.
Comment 4 Ingo Steuwer 2017-11-22 16:17:18 UTC 
I can reproduce this with the "Prefer HTML" settings (Kmail -> Security). System is Ubuntu 16.04 with KDE backports enabled (kontact package version 4:16.12.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu17.04~ppa2)
Comment 5 Till Schäfer 2020-11-23 23:36:34 UTC 
still valid for 5.15.3