I configured my kMail to prefer plain text content over HTML. Since upgrading to a QtWebEngine based version, it's impossible to print HTML mails. This is a major issue, as nowadays most mails are only readable and printable if HTML is enabled. 1) I click the mail, which will be shown in plain text view. 2) I enable HTML rendering by clicking the corresponding link in the mail's header. 3) I enable loading of external references / images, if required. 4) I chose "print mail". A dialog pops up which informs me that QtWebEngine does not yet support printing and an external browser will be used. 5) I chose "Open in Browser" and the external browser will open, *showing the mail's plain text contents*... (With no way to switch on HTML rendering, of course...) Expected: The external browser shoul show the mail the way it's currently displayed in the mail view at the time the print command was invoked. Reproducible: Always
Git commit 8c304e1ed6c63d33c4dc63991298a7eb1c72b93e by Montel Laurent. Committed on 14/10/2016 at 06:20. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'Applications/16.08'. Bug 369572 - Regression kMail 5.3.1 QtWebEngine: HTML mail printing not possible if plain text view is preferred over HTML FIXED-IN: 5.3.3 M +2 -1 messageviewer/src/viewer/viewer_p.cpp http://commits.kde.org/messagelib/8c304e1ed6c63d33c4dc63991298a7eb1c72b93e
Great! Thanks Laurent! :-) This bug was somewhat annoying, I always had to resort to Thunderbird to print bills and event tickets received as HTML mails... ;) Thanks to KDE Neon this fix should now reach me rather quickly - or at least I hope so... ;)
Has this fix been lost in a regression again ? I still can't print email directly in Kmail (just upgraded to 5.4.0 on Arch Linux)? qt5-webengine 5.7.1-1 (qt qt5) is also installed. Thanks Peter
Printing from QtWebEngine unfortunately will only implemented starting with Qt 5.8.