Bug 78953 - Change composer background depending on identity in use
Summary: Change composer background depending on identity in use
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: composer (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2004-04-03 06:03 UTC by Troy Rollo
Modified: 2012-08-19 00:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Patch against current SVN 2006-01-30 (17.98 KB, patch)
2006-01-30 06:56 UTC, Troy Rollo
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Description Troy Rollo 2004-04-03 06:03:35 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:          Linux

I make extensive use of multiple identities due to the number of roles I fill and the number of projects I participate in. I often find that I inadvertently send email with the wrong identity because I forget to change from the default, or because I am in a folder that has an identity attached and forget to change back from the default.

The problem here is that having the only indicator of identity being text in the signature and in the headers doesn't put it in your face enough to reduce the probability of errors.

A side effect of some spam laws is that there could be untoward consequences from using the wrong identity to send a particular message.

It would therefore be useful to be able to customise the background of the message entry box in composer according to the identity. I can see three options that would be of value in this regard:

1. Configuring the color of the background (which would also require a facility to change the color of the foreground in case a personality has a dark background) on a per identity;
2. Allowing the user to specify a watermark graphic that can either be stretched, tiled, centred, left aligned, top aligned, and so on; and
3. Allowing a graphic to be placed alongside the headers, in a space sufficiently large that you can't fail to miss it.

Thus when sending email using the work personality, I might have the company logo tiled as a watermark graphic in composer. When sending to the WINE mailing lists, the wine logo. When sending in a capacity in another organisation, I might have one of that organisation's livery colors as the background color, and another of the livery colors as the foreground color. When sending in a personal capacity, I might have my mug shot as the watermark (perhaps not, but you no doubt get the idea).

(synonym for searching purposes: colour/color)
Comment 1 Troy Rollo 2006-01-30 06:56:16 UTC
Created attachment 14453 [details]
Patch against current SVN 2006-01-30

This patch adds some of the features requested to the trunk at revision 503729
Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2010-01-06 11:32:49 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221500 ***
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2010-01-16 19:03:03 UTC
Hi Troy,

I just saw your patch here, when you commented on bug 221500. Seems like the patch was sitting here for 6 years unnoticed. I am very sorry for that :(

If you are still interested into bringing this functionality to KMail, can you update the patch to work on the latest KDE 4 version on then post it to reviewboard.kde.org? See http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Send_Patches.
On reviewboard, it is less likely for a patch to get lost.
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:27:07 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 5 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:54:23 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.