[Kde-pim] Composing HTML messages

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Thu Jun 7 00:14:47 BST 2007


On Wednesday 06 June 2007 23:24, kde-pim at x11.cjb.net wrote:
> On Wednesday June 6 2007 1:05 pm, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> > The typical way is to put the message in angle brackets, e.g.
> > <http://bogus-server.corp.muidomain.com/axg/fran-apan?q_act=view&q_
> >srn=1303 &q_showdetails=y>
>
> Yes, you can send URLs in an e-mail, that is not my point though.
>
> I want to send the as clickable links.  I do not want to have to show
> the entire url, I want the person on the other end to be able to
> click on a blue underlined word or phrase.
>
> Something like this in HTML:
>
> <a href='https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102924'>Proper Links in
> KMail</a>
>
> I understand that the reason that you currently cannot do this in
> KMail is more philosophical than technical.  I just want to know if
> this philosophy has changed at all.

Actually, the reason is more technical. QTextEdit's support for editting 
rich text (a tiny subset of HTML) is extremely limited (at least in Qt 
3). For the same reason inserting images (another very popular request) 
is not supported.

Regards,
Ingo
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