Bug 46411 - Add table support to HTML composing
Summary: Add table support to HTML composing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: composer (show other bugs)
Version: 1.99.0
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2002-08-12 19:48 UTC by tbohaning
Modified: 2012-08-15 11:31 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 4.10


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Description tbohaning 2002-08-12 19:45:05 UTC
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kmail
Version:           1.4.2 (using KDE 3.0.2 )
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-64GB-SMP
OS/Compiler notes: 

I would like to see support for multicolumn data or tables in the kmail client. I tried to create a table inside of kword and then copied and pasted the table into kmail. In place of a table I got a "#" synbol.

This would be helpful as there are a large number of times where I need support for inline tables and I end up using another mailers to send the email.

Thanks for any help that you can provide.

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Comment 1 Marc Mutz 2002-08-12 21:07:12 UTC
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On Monday 12 August 2002 21:45 tbohaning@earthlink.net wrote:
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> I would like to see support for multicolumn data or tables in the
> kmail client.
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Translation: I want to compose HTML mails.
Answer: Duplicate.

Marc

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Comment 2 Fred Schättgen 2004-08-20 02:47:41 UTC
kmail does have support for html mails to some extend now, but I fail to find support for tables. The fact that tables are related to the often requested html support isn't enough to close this bug - or did I miss something?

I would like to see support for tables much more than being able to use different fonts or colors. A long time ago, tables were invented to structure a document and not to force parts of bitmaps to the correct place. Keeping that in mind, even those who dislike html mails in general might find such a feature useful. 

It could even be very helpful for writing tabular data in plain-text mode. At the moment, all you can do is to guess a sufficient indention level, press tab once or twice and hope for the best.

It is surely more difficult to implement than support for different fonts, but as long as tables are not used for design purposes, it would be enough if all you could do with a table is to add or remove rows and columns.
Comment 3 Don Sanders 2004-08-24 09:00:06 UTC
I don't think you missed anything significant.

Currently KMail uses a QTextEdit based class for the composer editor. 
QTextEdit can display tables but doesn't seem to allow editing of 
them. (See the demo and textedit Qt examples).

Inline images are a similar problem.

It would be ideal if QTextEdit was improved to support these features. 
I'm waiting for that but am not sure if/when they will be 
implemented.

Don.

Comment 4 Bartosz Malinowski 2006-06-11 13:46:45 UTC
Hello, It's June 2006 (Kmail 1.9.1) and still nothing is happening about this... Could someone take look at it? 

greetings,
b.
Comment 5 Bartosz Malinowski 2006-06-14 16:58:12 UTC
Hello, 
Another wanted feature is mentioned here (Bug 128986: Can't Paste HTML-formatted text into Kmail mail editor window) - anyone is kindly invited to vote for this bug.

Greetings,
b.
Comment 6 gerlos 2009-05-08 12:31:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> kmail does have support for html mails to some extend now, but I fail to find
> support for tables. The fact that tables are related to the often requested
> html support isn't enough to close this bug - or did I miss something?

Actually, I think that tables are the main reason for having HTML mails. I don't care about colored text (I admit it, bold and italics are useful), but I find myself sending a lot of tabular data to other people that will find it more readable if just was well formatted.

Yes, we can do it creating the table in OpenOffice and attaching the document, but I  think that's something overkill for my needs. Also pasting the table from an HTML page or an OpenOffice document seems to work, but many times I got strange results in Kmail (maybe my fault), and I couldn't do anything to correct them, since Kmail can't edit tables.

So please, let us create and edit tables in Kmail!
Comment 7 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-01 11:30:14 UTC
Please check KMail2 and comment this bug report according to KMail2.

Reassigning to kmail2 meanwhile
Comment 8 Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf 2012-06-22 10:38:35 UTC
This issue depends on Bug 287540.
Comment 9 Laurent Montel 2012-07-25 17:47:17 UTC
Support for html table implemented in 4.10
Comment 10 Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf 2012-08-15 11:31:37 UTC
Yay!