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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: email control module
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-11-28 5:42:31
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On Monday 27 November 2000 17:29, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:19:39PM -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > The email control module allows the user to set various stuff like name
> > and e-mail address. Is there a class that I can call to easily access
> > this information from my application? I don't want to read the config
> > file myself because I don't want to duplicate the code for filling in the
> > defaults.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything in kdelibs/kdecore. This might be a nice small
> > job for someone who wants to start with KDE programming. The configure
> > module can be found in kdebase/kcontrol/email.
>
> Well, I'd like to see kcmemail have support for e-mail profiles (something
> I'm thinking of adding), but since there are objections... OTOH I think
> that it would be lopsided and somewhat confusing to have the ability to
> set an email address from there, only to be presented with more options in
> kmail..

That makes perfectly sense IMO. In the e-mail thingy you provide basic 
information and you can refine it in kmail's own settings. What would be more 
important is that these places should be synced. When you enter your e-mail 
address in kmail, it should fill out (or ask whether you want to) this global 
email address as well. Let's name it "Primary email address". And maybe kmail 
should make note whether the user uses this primary email address (at least 
for the default profile) so that when the user changes the primary email 
address the email address used by kmail (at least for the default profile) 
should follow this change.

That's one the things that are poorly implemented at the moment. (We have the 
same problem with colors that only follow the color scheme as long as they 
haven't been saved, but once they have been saved they don't follow changes 
in the global color scheme any longer.)

Cheers,
Waldo

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