T6854: Modernizing Kontact

[Daniel Vrátil]

dvratil created this task.
dvratil added projects: KDE PIM, VDG.

TASK DESCRIPTION
  I'd like to discuss here, with the help from VDG how we could improve the Kontact UI to look more modern and slick.
  
  I started by looking at KMail because that's our main and most important component, I'll keep updating this as I get to other components.
  
  This is the current default look of KMail in Kontact:
  F3873910: kmail-current.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F3873910>
  
  This is the look after some of my attempts for improvements:
  
  - monochromatic Breeze icons in the side pane without text
  - no frames around the side pane and the folder view
  - the folder view has the same background as the window to visually separate from the message list
  - the folder view does not have tree lines
  - the top-level "Account" folder is bold, the first "email" subfolder is not indented, but is on the same level as the "Account" folder - saves us a little bit of horizontal space as we effectively reduced the indentation by one level. The "Account" folders are separated by horizontal line and large padding (visible on the second screenshot)
  - the message list theme is using palette colors
  - the vertical color bar in message view off by default
  
  F3873914: kontact-modern.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F3873914>
  F3873917: kontact-modern-2.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F3873917>
  
  I'd like to get some input from https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/vdg/: is this a step in the right direction? Do you have any comments, especially regarding the folder tree?

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/T6854

To: dvratil
Cc: #vdg, #kde_pim, dvratil, skadinna, dvasin, aaronhoneycutt, winterz, vkrause, mlaurent, mbohlender, knauss
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