[Kde-pim] Re: Kontact Mail Speed (Re: Showstoppers in KMail)

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Kamil Domański wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2010 11:43:03 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > Note that this is not an issue with Lion Mail, as it
> > 
> > a) doesn't do static notification ("you have received 30 new
> > emails") *1 b) it shows the current state of folders (so when
> > filtering, new emails might first show up but will go away as soon
> > as the filtering is done
> > 
> > I'm not sure if KMail should send notifications about new emails
> > _at_all_ (I think it shouldn't). In Akonadi-times, we cannot just
> > assume that there's only one email client running at a time, this
> > has ramifications for UI and work- flow. There has to be one
> > central instance to do notifications. (In case of power management
> > and network management, we use a kded module as notification
> > policy agent.)

I fully agree, but until this central instance exists KMail should still 
do it. Just as KMail will still do the filtering until there's an 
Akonadi agent doing it.


> > *1 This would be a use-case where you'd want to update notification
> > that have been sent, something to take up with Plasma / KNotify
> > people.
> 
> I strongly agree, however the issue of per-folder notification
> remains. I don't expect that to be too much to handle in case of
> server-side filtering...on the other hand in case of multiple
> clients and client-side filtering it all turns into a whole lot
> different game. Unless, of course, the server-side filtering deals
> only with server side folders, and client-side filtering puts mail
> into local folders only. But expecting users to follow such a rule
> would be naive.
> 
> Turning KMail's entire filtering facilities into a frontend for
> Akonadi-side filtering would also be neat.

That's the plan. The problem is that somebody needs to do the work.


Regards,
Ingo
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