[Kde-pim] Re: lead for GSoC proposal on HTML support to KMail

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Friday 25 March 2011 20.53.15 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Friday 25 March 2011, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > On Friday 25 March 2011 15.59.40 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > The first thing would be making replying/forwarding preserve the
> > > HTML format, which is actually independent of the GUI editor.
> > > Right now when replying/forwarding a message, a new message that
> > > is the reply/forward is created. That new message already lacks
> > > the HTML part, which is the main problem in the whole story. So
> > > first KMail needs to be fixed to include a HTML part in
> > > replies/forwards.
> > 
> > Would I be wrong if I say that the culprit is
> > TemplateParser::messageText() as that calls
> > TemplateParser::asPlainTextFromObjectTree()
> 
> You are right in that requesting the plain text is the reason for the
> loss of the HTML. But you are wrong in saying that
> TemplateParser::messageText() is to blame for this.
> TemplateParser::messageText() didn't have another choice because
> QTextEdit would have totally corrupted any mildly advanced HTML message.

That means that to enable html replying, we need to change TemplateParser 
_and_ replace QTextEdit (or any layer above that) with a html aware editor 
component?

/Regards
Torgny
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