[Bug 86423] Ability To Reply To HTML Email With Same HTML Format As It Was Received

[Thomas McGuire]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86423





--- Comment #110 from Thomas McGuire <mcguire kde org>  2009-12-08 19:47:11 ---
I said I didn't want to reply to this again, but oh well, I have to clarify
something.

I'd like to address comment 108, in which the author says things like "subtle
ideological resistance", "decision-makers [..] may even consider one of their
own, who finally implements it, to be a \"sell-out\"" and "it is viewed as
DETRIMENTAL".

This is simply not true. As I've said before in comment 64: I'd like better
HTML support in KMail. In fact, I have worked on some minor stuff like inline
images for HTML myself. I don't know any developer who is opposed to better
HTML support.

I know I'm repeating myself: We consider better HTML support good. The only
reason it is not implemented is that I had no time to do that myself, so far,
and no one else came up with a complete patch yet.

Right now, I'm most busy with the Akonadi port of KMail, which does indeed have
greater priority, there is a _lot_ to do to make KMail work properly with
Akonadi.

That said, the plan in the back of my head was always to refactor the template
parser and then add HTML support to it. Maybe I can come to this during the
Akonadi port at some point. Money certainly helps shifting the priorities :)
But don't get your hopes up, it mainly depends on available time.

Also, the composer wouldn't use the WebKit editor, that is too much work.
Instead if would use QTextEdit, which means same HTML format preserving as
Mailody has, nothing fancy. Porting the whole composer to a WebKit editor would
really be much work.

At this point, KMail is feature-frozen, so any new feature has to be developed
in the Akonadi ports branch. KMail 2 (based on Akonadi) is expected/hoped to be
released with KDE 4.5.

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