KDE (vs GNOME)

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:27 pm, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 23:48, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Jonas Christian Drewsen wrote:
> > >I think KDE could get rid of lot of bloat by:
> > >
> > >1) Strip Control Center and other setting dialogs to the most
> > > common stuff.
> > >
> > >2) Create a new app called e.g. KTweakGui or something that can be
> > > used for all the special things like text shadows, cursor
> > > settings etc.
> >
> > I'd add one more:
> >
> > 3) Remove advanced options in favour of scriptability. E.g.,
> > "expire all emails in 45 days from this folder, except unread
> > emails (which should expire in 90 days) and important emails (which
> > should never expire). And, oh, please expire spam in 7 days".
>
> No objections here.
>
> While we're dreaming, er planning. It would be nice if the scripting
> support was rich enough so that the context menu actions for the
> headers list, reader window, and folder tree could be implemented in
> it. Along with some main menu actions like remove duplicates.
>
> > Ok, that's an extreme and non-existant case. But there has been a
> > wishlist on bugs.kde.org about not expiring Important emails.
> > That's one example of feature that should be present in the form of
> > scripting.
>
> Not an urgent issue, but yes would be nice.
>
> BTW: Kudos for all the work on KMail bugs recently.
>
> Don Sanders.

Really you guys don't seem to be talking about scriptability, but filtering.  
What if we got rid of the hard coded folders entirely in KMail and had each 
"folder" be a filer?  Then the trash "folder" could just have a filter such 
as (taking from the above example):

+"All emails 45 days old + not read + not marked as important"
+"All emails 07 days old + marked as spam"

-Benjamin Meyer
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