[Kde-pim] Review Request: Addition of "Maintenance" tab to the folder properties dialogue

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 12 February 2009, Jonathan Marten wrote:
> Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> writes:
> > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> >> - Compacting for maildir is a no-op, isn't it? If so, the compact
> >> button shouldn't be shown.
> >
> > For maildir the compaction mechanism is "abused" to apply the
> > message flags to the filenames. So it's not a no-op. Nevertheless,
> > it probably doesn't make sense to show the button for maildir
> > folders.
>
> In that case, if this is a legitimate function that the user may want
> to perform, should there be a separate button for it (with an
> appropriate label) in the maintenance dialogue?  Conversely, if there
> is no reason for a user to ever "compact" a maildir folder, maybe the
> "Compact folder" action should be removed from the context menu for
> non-mbox folders.

I'm wondering what "Compact folder" does for IMAP folders. For online 
IMAP the message headers are cached locally in mbox files. So 
maybe "Compact folder" does compact those mbox files. Even if it does, 
I still think it makes sense to remove the option from the context menu 
of IMAP folders.


Regards,
Ingo
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