Proof of concept − KIO mail://

[Daniel Vrátil]

Hi Pierre,

nice job!

I don't know if it's something that regular users would regularly, but it's 
certainly a nice showcase of what you can do with Akonadi :)

As a minor improvement, you could connect to 
Akonadi::FetchJob::itemsRetrieved() signal to populate the entries 
incrementally instead of waiting for the entire job to finish - that should 
make it look "faster" when opening larger folders (or retrieve the Items from 
the EntityTreeModel as well, since you already have it there). You could also 
populate UDS_MODIFICATION_TIME from Item.modificationTime() to allow sorting 
the emails by date :)

Dan

On Sunday, 23 September 2018 19:29:21 CEST Pierre wrote:
> Hi
> 
> A few weeks ago, I noticed I spent a lot of time juggling between KMail and
> the other applications, searching for attachments that I did not save
> locally… or trying to attach a file to an email only to find out that I did
> not save it and it was only available as another attachment.
> So I figured out that a mail:// KIO would be quite nice for these usecases :
> from okular, I could open PDFs from sent or received emails, from KMail I
> could attach a file from another email… After a few days of hacking, here
> is a proof of concept :
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/ducroquet/kiomail.git/
> 
> If you are brave enough to install and try it, don't forget when running
> CMake :
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=TRUE ..
> 
> And after make install, restart kdeinit5 (simply type the kdeinit5 command).
> You can then open «mail:/» in dolphin or whatever to browse your email
> attachments.
> 
> If you think this has any possible interest for users, I would gladly help
> evolve this from PoC to real code…
> 
>  Pierre


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