[kmail2] [Bug 383878] New: custom fonts for message list themes option missing

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383878

            Bug ID: 383878
           Summary: custom fonts for message list themes option missing
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 5.5.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: message list
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: dummycapstone at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 107458
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Dear KDEPIM devs/users,

gentoo has made kmail 5.5.3 stable as of today. And, unsuspectingly, updating 
the world got me into some issues with kmail:

1) it seems I lost the message list theme font editing capability. The one 
where you can cutomize the font for sender, subject, date and all those bits 
of email in preview pane. 

Just in case, the setting I am talking about is here: 
Settings > Konfigure KMail > Appearance > Message List > Default theme > 
Configure > pick the theme and see Advanced tab and right click on the fileds 
(see attached screenshot)


The previous version of the kmail( kmail-4.4.2017.04) from the tree had all 
the bells and whistles. You could chose any font and/or custom color. The new 
version allows you select custom color, but only allows you make the font 
either bold or italic which is unfortunate as the my choice of fonts make the 
message list pretty poorly readable as it looks too bunched up and lacks 
visual clarity, unfortunately.

I grepped kmail-4.4.2017.04/messagelist for "font" and it has plenty going on 
with regards to the custom font functionality for those fields in a theme. And 
I am not talking about "softening". My point is about the customization which 
was present in "previous" version. The new version seems to have rather poor 
functionality. Is this a planned and conscious choice or perhaps a regression?

Can we please have those options back?


2) there is no possibilty ( at least it seems so ) to chose cutom font for 
unread messages list.


I saw a bug report regarding point 2) which was supposedly fixed, alas the 
last reporter on it said it came back.

Please, can you please point me to a resource where I can read about these 
minor but pertinent issues.

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