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

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Tue Feb 28 11:03:13 GMT 2012


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?

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