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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Wish: Counting new messages in nested folders
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-09-28 9:52:56
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Denis Perchine wrote:
> > > > > i'm using Kmail 1.1.94 with KDE2 final Beta
> > > > >
> > > > > while using nested folders with KMail i think it would be nice if
> > > > > every subfolders new messages could be calcuted together in the
> > > > > headfolder
> > > >
> > > > I thing that can lead to confusement, because the head folder can
> > > > also contain messages on its own.
> > >
> > > Maybe it is a little bit  confusing, so think about
> > >
> > >    --Folder Name  (20, 40S)
> > >
> > > this means 20 Messages in the folder itself
> > >                 40 in subfolders
> >
> > The Bat! mailer it just uses Folder name (20, 10) for subfolders, where
> > 20 is in folder itself, 10 is in its subfolders. And it is really handy.

Sorry I didn't read your message carefully enough. Actually I like this 
approach. It's a nice way to solve the problem of seeing whether a closed 
folder contains new messages.

> It's very easy to do this, just a two line modification to paintcell in
> kmfoldertree.cpp.
>
> I'm not sure it would look better though. And I don't want to keep on
> adding more and more options to the configuration dialog, it just makes
> things confusing.
>
> Maybe we need some kind of support for themes, and only allow this stuff to
> be set in the config file.

This suggestion is still valid for options that don't warrant making the 
configuration dialog more complicated.

BFN,
Don.
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