[kdewebdev-site] Comment period has ended for www.kdewebdev.org Vision Statement

[Eric Laffoon]

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On Thursday 08 April 2004 8:36 am, David Joham wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who commented on the proposed vision statement for
> www.kdewebdev.org. I will try to compile all of the comments into a
> proposed final draft by the end of the weekend. I'll also respond to Eric's
> post to answer some of his questions.
>
> This being Easter weekend, I'm not sure I'll get to this by Sunday night,
> so if you don't hear from me at the end of the weekend don't despair - I'll
> get to it. I just have a few more things on my plate than usual at the
> moment.
>
> Also, if no-one minds a rant about Kmail, can someone tell me how to do the
> following please before I ditch it completely to use evolution or Mozilla?
> My current setup is MDK 10 with Kontact.

This may well be your problem. I used to use Mandrake and it's a great distro, 
but version 10 seems to be full of CVS snapshots, for better or worse. In the 
case of Quanta, and it appears Kmail it's worse. I have kdepim versioin 3.2.1 
built from source. With kdepim I highly recommend using only official 
releases unless developing given the changes it's going through and the 
importance of mail.
>
> 1) I would like Kmail to mark my Email as read after I double click on the
> mesage to read it. I've disabled the preview pane (I don't like it) and
> currently I have to manually mark the message as read after I read it.

I don't do this finding it convenient to use the default, click and view. To 
simulate your scenario I marked this message unread and double clicked. As 
soon as the mail opened it marked it read. I suspect it works with your 
layout too as this seems a reasonable test.
>
> 2) How do you highlight multiple messages in a folder? I'd like to delete
> multiple message or move multiple messages but KMail doesn't seem to want
> to let me.

Shift-click for start - end marking or Ctrl-click for one at a time addition. 
I think this is pretty much CUA behavior for some time and it's consistent 
through at least most of KDE... except maybe Quanta projects. ;-)

You cn also set it to expire messages automatically after a certain period of 
time. Another trick with version 3.2.1 is to do a search, and then delete 
everythig in your search folder. Very slick way to test and clean. You can 
also create virtual folders on search so I have for instance every email 
George sends me in a "George" folder under my search folders and this is 
dynamic foldering so you can do this to help organize project management too. 
There is also extensive filtering which can be used to delete, organize or 
trigger actions. You can also easily integrate spam detection and deletion 
programs with Kmail.
>
> 3) How do I enable dynamic word wrap? It seems as though I have two
> choices. No word wrap at all or hard word wrapping at a specific line
> length. I don't care for either option.

I dont' believe it's an option... It does auto re-wrap on edit though. you can 
have it cal an external composer like Quanta or kwrite too. Using kwrite is 
light and fast and will give you soft wrap. I think Kmail handles viewing 
these correctly but if not we will complain loudly. ;-)
>
> </rant> :)
>
> Thanks to all!
>
>
> David
If you have other kmail questions you might want to consult their lists or 
developers. It really has become a very capable package and is well suited to 
what we do. I'm by no means a kmail expert and I'd hate for your decision to 
turn on my level of expertise. I'd certainly install version 3.2.1, from 
source if need be. ;-)
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Eric Laffoon - Quanta+ Team Leader 
http://kdewebdev.org  eric at kdewebdev.org
Mailing list - http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta
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