[PATCH] Replacing email selection dialog in kmail

[Zack Rusin]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 11:18, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the current email selection dialog (the one which appears when you
> click on the button next to the 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' field in the mail
> composer window) really sucks from the technical (bugs) and usability
> point of view (too much buttons, splitter, missing scrollbars and 3
> actions merged into one dialog).

heh, I love how people use the "usability bugs" crap everywhere. The 
dialog that is there has been designed by our usability team. Aaron, 
and four other people from the usability team created it

> For this reasons I'd like to ask if the attached patches can be
> commited to CVS HEAD. With them KMail will use the contact selection
> dialog from libkabc (KABC::AddresseeDialog) which needs a small
> extension for this purpose.
>
> I know it's quite late in the release schedule, but also the kmail
> developer would like to see this dialog be used for 3.2.

There's no way in hell we'll do that. That dialog is crap, it's pretty 
much what we had in 3.1 just with sorting. No distribution lists, no 
idea who's already selected, no idea how to select multiple addresses, 
no categories or groups. It's ok if you have 5 addresses in your 
address book, but with thousands of them it doesn't make any sense. 

Zack

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