Bug 55308 - Make the displayed folder name configurable
Summary: Make the displayed folder name configurable
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: folder list (show other bugs)
Version: 1.5
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
URL:
Keywords:
: 161145 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-02-27 21:38 UTC by Stefan Briesenick
Modified: 2012-08-19 01:04 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Stefan Briesenick 2003-02-27 21:38:50 UTC
Version:           1.5 (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

IMAP special folders (Drafts, Sent, Trash) should be selectable and then shown in translated form, same as with 'INBOX' which is i.e. shown as 'Posteingang' in german.

There're at least these special folders:

- INBOX
- Drafts
- Sent
- Trash
- Templates (if supported)

Current implementation:
* INBOX is always fix but translated
* Trash can be selected, but is not translated (.ie. 'Papierkorb' in german)
* Sent and Drafts can't be selected, aren't used and aren't translated

Please add an option to select and use at least 'Sent' and 'Drafts' on a per account basis and show them (together with INBOX and Trash)  translated  (i.e. german: 'Posteingang', 'Papierkorb', 'Gesendete Nachrichten' and 'Entw
Comment 1 Carsten Burghardt 2003-02-28 13:53:07 UTC
You can select your sent and drafts folder in the identity. 
I'm sorry but it's simply not possible to translate these folders because you can select 
every folder as trash/drafts/sent and therefore it won't be sensible to change the 
name. That is possible with the inbox as it's a system folder which always has the 
same name. 
Comment 2 Stefan Briesenick 2003-02-28 20:21:50 UTC
yes, I know. But you haven't read it correctly! 
 
make 'Sent' and 'Drafts' configurable as 'Trash'! 
 
You can select the Trash folder in version 1.5, but you can not select 'Sent' and 'Drafts'. And that is 
the problem! If you could configure your special folders, then KMail could translate them, because you 
know the meanings of that folders! 
 
Mozilla Mail do that exactly this way and it works great! 
 
regards 
Stefan 
Comment 3 Carsten Burghardt 2003-03-01 13:06:43 UTC
I'll try again.  
You _can_ configure your special folders. Not in the account but in your identity. And it 
would be possible to translate them because we know the meaning. 
I simpy don't think it's a good idea as the original name of the folder might be 
completely different. Imagine you have a folder "Spam" and you select it as your trash 
folder. Do you think it's a good idea that this is magically displayed as "Trash" or 
"Papierkorb" (depending on your language)? I don't. I'm _sure_ we would even get 
bugreports about this ;-) 
Perhaps it would be a good idea to automatically display the correct icon but there are 
definitely some things that are more important. 
Comment 4 Stefan Briesenick 2003-03-01 14:27:32 UTC
ok, Icons would be a nice solution. :-D 
 
but: if you marked a folder named 'My collected Spam' as your 'Trash' folder, then IT IS your Trash 
folder, no matter how you named it... 
 
The reason, why I said Kmail needs such feature is: many Email-Clients wants the special folders named 
in english (namely 'Trash', 'Drafts', 'Sent Mail'). Mozilla Mail for example creates *always* a folder 
'Trash' and shows it in your native language. So you don't have a chance to name them in your native 
language. And that is confusing for i.e. my mother; she don't speaks english very well. 
 
I see your problem, but there should be a comfortable solution. Icons would be ok, but perhaps you 
can introduce a switch '[X] special folder names in native language' or such, which is 'off' by default. 
 
Stefan 
Comment 5 Stefan Briesenick 2003-03-01 14:36:05 UTC
or introduce a mapping list: 
 
folder      | shown as 
-----------+--------------------- 
Trash       | Papierkorb 
Drafts     | Entw
Comment 6 Carsten Burghardt 2003-03-01 15:34:00 UTC
OK, accepted, I reopen this bug and change the wording. OK? 
Comment 7 Stefan Briesenick 2003-03-01 15:48:05 UTC
yes, thanks! 
Comment 8 Stefan Briesenick 2004-02-08 23:27:11 UTC
what happend? It's NOT included in KDE 3.2 :-(
Comment 9 Stefan Briesenick 2004-08-31 00:35:25 UTC
remind, remind, remind.

KDE 3.3, still not implemented. Should be an easy task!
Comment 10 Carsten Burghardt 2004-08-31 10:35:39 UTC
@ sbriesen@gmx.de:
Feel free to implement this.
Comment 11 Stefan Briesenick 2004-08-31 11:54:22 UTC
wuahh.

well. I'm able to do this technically.

But: I need years to understand the code before I can hack in this little thingy. I think, it's *much* easier for the main developers (who knows their code best) to implement this. It's not a major task. I only asked to make the displayed foldernames configurable.

So:

real name: Trash    displayed name: Papierkorb

if "displayed name" is not set, then it is the "real name" by default.
Comment 12 sero4linux 2006-07-29 15:32:48 UTC
OK,two years later and still the situation didn't change :( Is this such an difficult hack? The translated names are a very important feature for me cause my parents wouldn't accept the original (english) names in there mail app - and I DONT want to go with thunderbird in a KDE environment ... 
Comment 13 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-07 23:06:01 UTC
Please stop begging for implementing it. It's open source after all, use your own skills or be patient until someone else steps up to voluntary implement it. Thank you.
Comment 14 Thomas McGuire 2008-05-02 23:55:58 UTC
*** Bug 161145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Thomas Maaß 2008-05-03 00:30:57 UTC
What about the solution to translate these folders by hand?
Simply add fields to enter the user definied names for these
folders. Every user can translate them himself in his language.
Comment 16 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:06:38 UTC
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 17 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 01:04:43 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.