[Kde-pim] Review Request: Migrate KMail's "Include in manual mail checks"

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2010-06-09, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2010-06-09, Casey Link wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to do it without modifying
> > > > Akonadi::AgentInstanceWidget,
> > > 
> > > My solution is to create a ProxyModel in front of
> > > Akonadi::AgentInstanceModel that adds an extra column(s) to display
> > > a checkbox(es) in.
> > > 
> > > As it turns out Akonadi::AgentInstanceWidget is using a QListView,
> > > which means the extra columns will not appear.
> > > 
> > > There are a couple possible solutions here:
> > > 
> > > 1) Make the Akonadi::AgentInstanceWidget view configurable i.e.,
> > > add a setView()  method
> > > 
> > > 2) Create a separate view/widget that uses a QTableView to use in
> > > the Configure Dialog
> > > 
> > > I can think of a couple other use cases where an app might want
> > > some custom columns/actions tacked on to the AgentInstanceModel,
> > > but is it worth putting in kdepimlibs Akonadi lib?
> > > 
> > > In the meantime I'll implement on #2, which could easily be
> > > refactored later into a generic kdepimlibs widget.
> > 
> > Cool!
> > 
> > I think this might also help to with our discussion of the shutdown
> > issue.
> > 
> > While it is of course still bad to have one application influence the
> > online/offline state of resources, very visible options for
> > configuring that could make this acceptable.
> > 
> > I imagine that each resource in KMail has three additional options:
> > 
> > - Include in startup checks (maybe default to false)
> > - Include in manual cheks (default to true)
> > - Switch to offline on shutdown (default to false)
> 
> "Switch to offline on shutdown" will obviously fail if KMail crashes.
> But I suppose this problem is acceptable.

Right.
Most users will restart KMail after it crashes or logout and be done for the 
day.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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