[Kde-pim] kmail4, text mail body with css support?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 01 June 2007 19:14, you wrote:
> You're hopefully the proper contact - if not, please fwd to the right
> person, TIA.

A way better contact than a single developer is the project's mailing 
list. In this case that's kde-pim (although there is also kmail-devel, 
but that one is mostly obsolete because most development issues are not 
restricted to kmail and are therefore better discussed on kde-pim). So 
I'm moving our discussion to kde-pim.

> I wonder if i can interest you in adding css support for displaying
> text mails in kmail (i'm not a fan of html mails at all...)
>
> this way we could provide customizable looks to the mail appereance,
> including fancier headers, e.g. a photo of the sender, various
> appereances to the quoted text and nice frames around the body (e.g.
> a shadow like most blogs currently have)

I'd be interested in this. In fact, we are already making use of css 
albeit our css is mostly hard-coded with a few variables like colors 
and font settings. You can find the corresponding code in csshelper.*. 
This class used to be in kdepim/libkdepim in KDE 3. I'm not sure 
whether it's still there or has been moved for KDE 4.

> as kmail has a body renderer for html anyway, the task would only be
> to translate the mail into html, add the css and use the html
> renderer
>
> as this all is completely user side, i don't see security issues like
> on html mails, but a nice and custom appereance
>
> if you're interested, i volunteer for writing such patch (but i'm not
> writing for the trashcan ;)

Please go ahead. As fallback we should still keep the hard-coded css. In 
particular, because this way the messages' appearance obeys KDE's 
global colors and fonts. The user created CSS could of course also have 
support for macros/placeholders (e.g. for certain colors or text 
styles) that KMail would replace with the corresponding values when it 
loads the CSS.


Regards,
Ingo
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