[kaddressbook] [Bug 324461] New: unclear wording for HTML and remote content options

[Jonathan Marten]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324461

            Bug ID: 324461
           Summary: unclear wording for HTML and remote content options
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kaddressbook
           Version: GIT
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: jjm at keelhaul.me.uk
                CC: tokoe at kde.org

On the first tab "Contact" of the contact edit dialogue, there are two options:

Prefers to receive messages formatted as:     (dropdown list)
Allow remote content    (checkbox)

It is not immediately clear what these options refer to, or that they are
related.  Also, the wording of the first option implies that this contact wants
to *receive* messages in the specified format, i.e. messages composed and
*sent* by the KDEPIM user.  This is not ther way that the option works:  the
only place where this option is used (kdepim/messageviewer/header) controls the
display of messages *received from* this contact.  Possibly this is the source
of the user confusion in bug 260354.

Suggest that these options should be shown as related by a group box (maybe
titled "Messages"), and their labels should say:

Show messages received from this contact as:   (dropdown list)
Allow remote content in received HTML messages   (checkbox)

It's not clear what the "Unknown" option in the dropdown list means, so this
should maybe say "Default" (i.e. as configured in Kmail - Security).

This group box would also be a suitable place to add a per-contact option for
*sending* HTML mail, if that is ever implemented (with the same dropdown
options "Default", "Plain Text" or "HTML").

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