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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Rewrite KMail? (was Re: Rework of the mail composer)
From:       Nicholas Hagen <tommy () zidnet ! net>
Date:       2000-12-30 18:41:22
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I have an upcoming patch in the next week or so that adds group addressbook 
support to KMail, so that you can create groups and add to that alias users 
from the addressbook or just an email address.  And then when mail is sent 
out, the user can type that name or can click on the To: button to get to the 
addressbook selection which will also contain the group names.  How mail 
willl be sent to the users I'm not sure.  Whether the composer win should 
extract each email addy from the group list and add it to the To: list or 
whether there should be added functionality to the sending of the mail where 
if it sees a name that is a group it extracts each name then and sends it to 
that email.

Anyways, just letting people know I'm also working on a group addressbook 
design and UI.

Nick

On Wednesday 27 December 2000 10:41 am, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> I've suggested on this list before that after KDE 2.1 comes out, it may be
> time to rewrite KMail from the ground up. That mail was met with only one
> response, a positve one, saying that we should really take advantage of the
> new features in KDE 2.
>
> I agree with you completely on the need to clean up some of the code. There
> were some very hard to track down bugs dealing with headers and messages a
> while ago (and possibly deleting a message other than the one that was put
> in the trash from the header list) because the code to handle all that is
> too complicated. It could (should) be simpler.
>
> I like your other ideas, too. Particularly about having the ability to add
> people to what you call a group, where you can have one alias that sends
> mail to several different addresses. There are already many ways to do that
> in UNIX, but for the kind of user that KDE claims to be aimed at, it would
> be good to put that in the MUA.
>
> I know that everyone is busy stamping out bugs, and I should be, too, but I
> think it is important not to lose site of the long view here, either.
>
> On Wednesday 27 December 2000 10:07, Matthias Grimrath wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I am new to this list. I joined because I want to add some feature to
> > kmail's mail editor. Discussing my plans on this list seems to be a good
> > idea.
> >
> > a) I want to change the To:, Cc:... widgets so that they can display the
> > recipients' addresses in more than one line. I frequently write emails to
> > 10+ people so I'd like to have a better overview.
> >
> > b) As time permits, I would add groups to the addressbook, so I can
> > collect a whole a set of people under a name.  It's a very nice feature
> > in Pine :-)
> >
> >
> > Having a look at the file 'kmcomposewin.cpp' I feel an urgent need to
> > clean it up. There are scattered '#ifdef KRN' that seem to have no
> > purpose today. Instead of calculation the widget layout by
> > 'rethinkHeaders' I would try to utilize Qt's layout classes to get the
> > same effect. I think I can also make the 'KMComposeWin' calls more
> > readable by putting the headerwidgets in some kind of list and remove the
> > circular dependency with KMEdit by using signal/slots.
> >
> > Greets,
> > Matthias Grimrath
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