[Kde-pim] messagelist folder switching

[O. Sinclair]

On Tuesday 14 May 2013 12:46 AM David Faure wrote:
> One issue that has been bothering me forever in kmail2 is that it doesn't
> pre- select the last "current email" in a given folder, when switching back
> to it.
> 
> The code for it is there, in Model::setStorageModel, which was apparently
> intended to be called on each folder switch, but it's not (anymore?). It's
> only called once, and after that the magic selectionproxymodel fills the
> messagelist based on the folder(s) selected in the tree. So it's all
> "removing rows and inserting rows", the Model class lost the concept of
> "now I'm jumping to another folder altogether".
> 
> (There's also code for it in Model::activateMessageAfterLoading, but it's
> never called, at all.)
> 
> My question is:
> 
> do we really need the feature where the user can select multiple folders in
> the foldertree, and see in the messagelist, the messages from all these
> folders combined?
> Does anyone really use this?
> 
Have to admit that as a long time user of Kmail1 and 2 I had no idea it 
existed. It is not a bad concept but if it gets in the way of something more 
relevant (I also am frequently irritated by what David describes) then I can 
happily live without it.

kind regards
Sinclair
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