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Subject: [kc-kde] [SUMMARY] Kontact issues
From: "Peter Rockai (mornfall)" <mornfall () logisys ! dyndns ! org>
Date: 2003-11-07 13:33:41
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Summary of thread "Kontact issues" on kde-pim.
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["kontact-iss.xml" (text/xml)]
<section
title="Kontact issues"
subject="Kontact issues"
posts="10"
startdate="31 October 2003 01:22:31"
enddate="31 October 2003 18:17:08">
<topic>PIM</topic>
<topic>Kontact</topic>
<mention>Cornelius Schumacher</mention>
<mention>Daniel Molkentin</mention>
<mention>Reinhold Kainhofer</mention>
<mention>Adriaan de Groot</mention>
<mention>Michael Brade</mention>
<p>Cornelius came with (scaringly) long list of issues he had with Kontact
the groupware client:</p>
<quote who="Cornelius Schumacher">
<p>When trying the current CVS version of Kontact I noticed a couple
of issues, which have to be resolved before the release. This
includes showstoppers like the missing manual as well as annyoing
bugs like menu items with no effect. I didn't make bugzilla
entries, because there are just too many, but I think that most of
these issues have to be resolved before we can release
Kontact.</p>
<p>Here we go:</p>
<p>container framework
<ol>
<li>There is no Kontact manual.</li>
<li>The "configure kontact" dialog doesn't make any sense. It
contains unsorted modules of a subset of applications and
the plugin selection dialog is hidden behind a
"configure..." button which propably isn't found by too
many users (I know that it was my suggestion to make the
button as it is now). The whole configuration dialog
should be removed and the individual apps dialogs have to
be reinstantiated. The plugin selection could get an
separate menu action.</li>
<li>The summary view File menu contains a "New
<itemfromlastselectedplugin>" action which doesn't
work.</li>
<li>status bar doesn't adapt to the selected part.</li>
<li>When the app corresponding to a plugin already is running,
clicking on the icon of the plugin has no visible effect.
After a long while the app is raised, but the plugin isn't
selected and there is no visual feedback.</li></ol></p>
<p>kmail
<ol start="6">
<li>The KMail summary says "utbox" not "outbox", similar for
other folders.</li>
<li>The KMail summary view isn't updated when the content of
mail folders changes in KMail.</li>
<li>When clicking on the folder link of the KMail summary, the
KMail part is activated, but the correct folder isn't
selected.</li>
<li>The address selection dialog of KMail is broken in several
ways: There are two splitters which have no real use
(hiding buttons with a splitter is a strange way to use
splitters), adding an address to the recipients removes
the address from the address book, for simply adding a
single reciepient from the address book, the list view
item "other addresses" first has to be openend (this is
annyoing because it's the by far most common use case,
this should be as easy as possible). Can't we use the
addresseeslectdialog from libkabc?</li></ol></p>
<p>korganizer
<ol start="10">
<li>The KOrganizer part isn't automatically loaded when
clicking on an event in the summary view or dropping a
mail on the calendar/todolist icons.</li>
<li>The calendar resources kcontrol module isn't synced with
the resource view in KOrganizer.</li>
<li>The "New event/todo" actions in the most left toolbar
action don't work.</li>
<li>There is no todo list summary.</li></ol></p>
<p>kaddressbook
<ol start="14">
<li>When the KAddressBook part is active there are two
identical "New contact" actions next to each other.</li>
<li>Clicking on a mailto url in the kaddressbook plugin takes
a long while to open a composer window. There is noi
visual feedback during that time.</li>
<li>In KAddressBook there is no way to configure addressbook
resources.</li></ol></p>
<p>knotes
<ol start="17">
<li>Editing notes in the yellow window and the right pane in
the KNotes view isn't synchronized. If I type something in
the yellow window and then select the note from the list
in the KNotes plugin everything I types is lost. The
yellow windows should be disabled, when running KNotes in
Kontact.</li>
<li>The KNotes plugin randomly pops up small yellow windows
when activated for the first time.</li></ol></p>
</quote>
<p>This post spawned some discussion, especially regarding the
documentation. Reinhold pointed out that <quote who="Reinhold
Kainhofer">We're in string freeze, which includes help and manual,
too :-(((</quote> But Adriaan suggested they should be sent to
some lauri at kde dot org (Lauri Watts AFAIK), who will commit them
before release in a manner acceptable for translators (so these will
remain English-only). At another place, Tobias wondered whether it
would be feasible to make Kontact documentation only point to
respective application manuals.</p>
<p>On a different note, Daniel stated, that all the 6, 7 and 8 are
different sides of one problem: <quote who="Daniel Molkentin">The
problem is that the folder status is read from kmailrc which is an
incredibly broken idea. Plus it doesn't cover imap folders. The
problem is that anything else would require a permanently running
kmail or the summary part would need to be linked against a
convinience lib containing at least the kernel.</quote>. He also
added, that he will look into 3 and 4. Some suggestions on other
issues were made.</p>
<p>On the knotes side of problem, Michael (the knotes maintainer) said he
was busy with university work and that he would appreciate any
help.</p>
</section>
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