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

[Sudhendu Roy]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Torgny Nyblom <kde at nyblom.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Does that mean if we replace the  present QTextEdit, then we need not
request the plain text? So by simply replacing text editor we can solve both
the problem of requesting HTML text as well as forwrding/replying the
messages. Am I right?

> 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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