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Subject:    Re: [Bug 56433] KMail lost nice feature of showing number of unread e-mail _as_ _part_ of name of fo
From:       Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-03-29 11:24:08
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On Friday 28 March 2003 09:22, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2003 21:10, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:11, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > I think the context menu needs an update. Present behaviour is
> > > ridiculous and I definately didn't know this and was not able to
> > > figure it out.
> >
> > What do you propose?
> >
> > IMO
> >     View Columns
> >     ------------
> > [ ] Unread Column
> > [ ] Total Column
> > is pretty clear, although it's of course not obvious that turning off
> > both columns will re-enable KMail's old way of showing the number of
> > unread messages.
>
> That's exactly the problem.

To stop spreading of incorrect information: the behaviour of the unread column 
is not coupled to the total column. So you don't have to deactivate the total 
column to get back the old behaviour (e.g. I use it this way).

> > Should we change the context menu to
> >     View
> >     ----
> > [ ] Unread After Name
> > [ ] Unread Column
> > [ ] Total Column
>
> How about making the two unread be mutually exclusive items? So it's
>
> ( ) Unread After Name
> ( ) Unread Column
> ---------------------
> [ ] Total Column
>
> This is after all what it's really doing.
>
> Bo.

Not bad but I'm not so sure if that'll look good in the context menu of the 
column-header. I'll give it a try. But then it's probably better to include a 
submenu in the View-menu and to put the switches in there.

Carsten 

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