[Bug 286522] New: message tags sloppy to uselessness

[Cristian Tibirna]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286522

           Summary: message tags sloppy to uselessness
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.7
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: message list
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: tibirna at kde.org


Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

There are no available message tags in Settings/Configure/Appearance/Message
Tags, apart  from "Important". 

The "Filter by Status" combo box that can be displayed above the messages list
contains a whole list of possible statuses. These should appear in the "Message
tags" dialog so that user can configure them. 

In that above-mentioned list, "Important" appears twice, with different icons.

Icons configured in the "Message tags" dialog are not applied when the user
marks a message.

The context (right click) "Mark message" submenu of a message is utterly
confusing, presenting both an actionable "Mark message as important" menu item,
as well as a checkable "Message Tag Important". They don't act on the same
internal data, as they are separately actionable, with different results.

The Settings/Configure/Appearance/Message Tags dialog itself is riddled with
bugs. Choosing to use a different color for tagged message (given that icons
are not correctly applied) makes the default "white" color assigned by default,
which is utterly useless: message becomes invisible in the list with the
default KDE color pallete. The foreground color of the current pallete should
be the minimum acceptable default.

As you can see, each of the above paragraphs would be elligible for its own bug
report. As it is now, kmail is useless for serious e-mail management. A reason
to lose our faithful users.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See message above.


Expected Results:  
Message tags should work.

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