Created attachment 111477 [details] Screenshot showing popup menu with a simple option to switch to list view - I could not find a similar way back after selecting this entry. If I didn't miss any obvious option, it's very easy to switch the "preferred folders" area from icon view to list view by just right-clicking the area and chosing the appropriate option. However, once list view is activated, it does not have a general "preferred folder area" right-click popup-menu any more, only the list entries have specific popup menus which (obviously) do not offer any functionality which works on the whole area. So the only option I found to get back was to open the kMail settings dialog and search for the corresponding option buried in some of the settins tabs. This is not obvious and in any case very asymmetric behaviour. If I try such an option, I expect to get back again to the previous state just as easily...
it's a problem if area is too small. We have the same problem with icon view if it's too small. I will look at how to improve it.
Git commit 4697fd79c791482edac94124b354b6ad50f101ce by Laurent Montel. Committed on 18/03/2018 at 14:10. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'. Fix Bug 391994 - Usability: It's easy to switch "preferred folders" from icon view to list view, but difficult to switch back FIXED-IN: 5.8.0 M +3 -1 src/kmail_part.rc M +3 -1 src/kmmainwin.rc https://commits.kde.org/kmail/4697fd79c791482edac94124b354b6ad50f101ce
Works great, thanks! Sort order of the Preferred Folders also somehow changed in the new release, but I'll get used to it...