[PATCH] Replacing email selection dialog in kmail

[Rainer Endres]

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Hi

On Sunday 30 November 2003 20:02, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Or why it's not possible to add a distribution list to the  
> list of addressees (and by this I mean the name of the distribution
> list and not all it's members). Why can one Add, Edit or Remove
> contacts from the addressbook in an address _selection_ dialog? 

agree

> Why can one save distribution lists from there?

This one I do not agree on. Where else can I save them? Do I have to fire up 
kaddressbook, build a distribution list and then go back to KMail and select 
it? I liked the simpler way of the current dialog, but perheaps I am special 
in this. At least the lists from kaddressbook show up now, which they did not 
for me in the old dialog. Being able to review who is in a list is nice, too. 
Please be aware of the fact of not everybody using kontact. Firing up another 
app to get distribution lists is not this obvious.

> This dialog is a "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau" (in English "A pig which
> gives milk and wool and which lays eggs"). It doesn't really solve the
> task that it is supposed to solve, namely to make it easy for the user
> to select the To, the Cc and the Bcc recipients. (Mostly because of
> many bugs.) Instead it has loads of completely unnecessary
> functionality resp. functionality which is duplicated from the address
> book.

You refer to the New/Edit/Delete? I aggree there, a button opening 
kaddressbook would help. Especially reusing the kaddressbook filters would 
help.

>
> The new one is also crap because it confuses the user with loads of
> unnecessary functionality.
>
> I agree that the dialog that Tobias proposed isn't the solution. Instead
> I'd like to see the following changes in the current dialog:
> - Remove the stupid splitters.
> - Remove all functionality which doesn't belong in an address selection
> dialog, namely the "Add", "Edit", "Delete" and "Save as distribution
> list" buttons.

Agree, no need to edit addresses here, but pleace replace it with an "open 
addressbook" or something. 

I repeat myself, but I see no point not to produce and edit distribution lists 
here, since this is where I need them. Opening kaddressbook and building 
distribution lists (without a selection for BCC and CC AFAIK), then go back 
to KMail Composer and continue is not really a nice way. Being able to do 
this here (perheaps via an Advanced... button) feels right for me. Perheaps I 
am too special in my needs.  

> - Put all distribution lists under the category Distribution Lists and
> make it possible to actually select a distribution list and not only to
> select the members of the distribution list.

Jep, thats missing.

> On IRC Tobias has proposed to work on a patch to improve the current
> dialog.

Nice to hear. Looking forward to test it.

MfG
	Rainer
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                          Rainer Endres
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endres at die-er.de
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