Version: 1.6.2 (using KDE 3.2.2, Gentoo) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 I have a whole bunch of folders, normally almost three screen heights full (if all are expanded loads more). It becomes more and more annoying to scroll through this list to see in which folders new mail arrived. And I guess I'm not the only one with that many folders. I'm thinking about a feature which adds an option "Show only folders with new mail" to the View menu for some time now but I'm simply lacking time to try to implement it. So if anybody else is interested, here's the wish :) If not, I might have a try when (if) I have some time to do so. I see just three possible issues with that feature: 1. Nested folders, how should they be displayed? I'm not sure, either with single open folders on the way down or like Usenet groups are, something like "archive/2004/04". 2. If I have a new mail and want to drag-and-drop it to some other place, I most probably want to put it in a folder currently not shown (as those are probably archives). Possible solutions: (a) One has to disable that feature before doing so, maybe via a toolbar button (easy) or (b) as soon as one starts to drag a mail, all other folders spring into view. 3. What happens if you're viewing a folder with new mail and then all mail is read? I think: It should stay visible until you change folders. Comments, doubts, flames?
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 22:36, Malte S.Stretz wrote: > It becomes more and more annoying to scroll through this list to see in which folders new mail arrived. Just a thought, but isn't it simpler to use Ctrl "+" to jump to the next unread mail (in any folder)?
I sometimes do this (though I'm no fan of the "jump to next unread folder" feature anyway) and it has two drawbacks: 1. I often have KMail on my second Xinerama screen so I can have a short glimpse to the left to see if any new mail arrived. So the window doesn't (and shouldn't) have the focus (theoretically as I currently have to enable it to scroll down and up again). 2. It also happens that I have new mail which I don't want to read yet (eg. some mailinglists I just read from time to time). If I use Ctrl++ to view the next unread mail and jump into one of those folders I always have to mark the mail I jumped to as unread again because umm.. I haven't read it ;~)
I strongly support this wish. Both slrn and Gnus behave this way, and IMHO it is the only sane way to do it. I have around 200 folders myself, plus my company's shared folder hiearchy is around 450 folders. Scrolling through that list is a chore, even though I have a fairly large resolution on the desktop. As Mr. Stretz also points out, many of these folders will receive un-uimportant email, such as mailing lists that I mostly just skim through now and then, while other folders receive only urgent mail I need to read quickly. As my total mail volume is very high, so looping through all unread messages once in a while isn't a substitute for being able to glance at the window to spot if one of the important folders are listed as having new mail. Tore Anderson
I wonder how you want to spot the important folders among all the unimportant folders that have new mail? Since KMail does now have a system tray applet which shows the number of unread messages in the folders which should be considered you can easily see whether there are any new messages in important folders. In the development version unimportant folders can be skipped when using Ctrl+Plus/Minus. So the system tray applet in combination with the new behavior of Ctrl+Plus/Minus makes is easy to see whether there are any new messages in important folders and then to jump to those new messages. And on top of that there's a detailed new message notification dialog which lists the important folders which received new mail.
I also strongly support this wish and I want to enhance it (rather then posting a new wish). I would like to have different view modes implemented. Not only about folders, also about mails. Crosspoint (my old DOS-Mailprogramm) hat the possibility to only show mails which I received from a date to a another date, or from a date. Kmail has already the possibility to show only mails in a folder with certain attributes. I would like to have the date options added to this and the possibility to have a global variant of this setting to all folders. Meaning, show only folders containing mail with the desired attributes. I would be also cool to combine attributes. This would make it sometimes much easier to find a mail you are looking for, when you can not find it by search.
*** Bug 97390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***