[Kde-pim] smart folder / search on unread emails

[Shaheed Haque]

One interesting/unexpected thing I just found is that I don't see any
way to associate a Search folder with a (set of) collections. That
came as a particular surprise because I was trying to create search
folder for kaddressbook...imagine my surprise when it also appeared in
kmail...

2012/2/29 Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>:
> On Tuesday, 2012-02-28, Milian Wolff wrote:
>> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 12:03:13 Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, 2012-02-28, Milian Wolff wrote:
>> > > Hey there,
>> > >
>> > > I just wanted to try the potentially awesome new search features to
>> > > finally
>> > > get a smart folder that shows all my unread emails... Well it "works"
>> > > but the behavior is really bad:
>> > >
>> > > - you select some unread email in the smart folder to read it
>> > > - it gets marked as read
>> > > - the search gets updated
>> > > - since the mail is not unread anymore, it gets removed from the smart
>> > > folder - kmail selects the next email
>> > > - repeat from above
>> > >
>> > > hence, selecting such a folder is like "mark all new email as read"
>> > > which is of course not what I want :]
>> > >
>> > > But how could this be fixed? Any ideas? I'd be willing to invest some
>> > > time on this, but quite frankly wonder how this should be done. Andras
>> > > told me there is a similar bug when you apply a folder-filter on
>> > > unread emails.
>> > >
>> > > My use-case could be "solved" by different ways, e.g.:
>> > >
>> > > - never mark emails as read in search folders that search for unread
>> > > emails
>> > > - only update the search folder after the mail is de-selected
>> >
>> > - do not move selection automatically unless the currently selected item
>> > is deleted?
>>
>> yes that could work as well, but how does one differentiate between these
>> two? after all, it's the model/qt that does this, no? I'll ask steve later
>> if he knows whether this would be feasable
>
> My guess is that the model removes the row, the view clears the selection and
> creates a new one.
>
> In this case the view would have to check if an item still exists when the
> model removes a row which is currently the selection.
>
> Maybe it could even monitor the selected item itself.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
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