[Akonadi] [Bug 455863] New: A qml datasource/dataengine for emails (and maybe even other Akonadi stuff, like Akregator's feeds)?

[acidrums4]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455863

            Bug ID: 455863
           Summary: A qml datasource/dataengine for emails (and maybe even
                    other Akonadi stuff, like Akregator's feeds)?
           Product: Akonadi
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: acidrums4+stuff at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
A thing I actually miss when I had to use Windows back in the day was Gmail
Notifier Plus[0], a mini app that sat in the taskbar and notified you for each
new mail, giving you the chance to cycle though all new emails, preview them
and opening/deleting them. It was immensely useful since one didn't had the
need to have a tab opened for gmail every time (or, know, kmail running) - you
could pretty much manage your email from that mini app.

For a brief moment we had a kind of similar thing in the KDE4 days, whose name
I cannot remember. Sadly, since KDE "5" and the migration from Python to QML
plasmoids, that ability to interact with kmail was lost and, after getting to
know a bit about QML since a couple of years ago, primarly due to not having
any datasource/dataengine where to pull email data from.

With that in mind I think kmail (and Plasma, in general) are lacking a proper
and more complete email notification system. The current one works fine for a
single email (well, not very much at this moment[1]) but the thing with the QML
datasource/dataengine handicaps any possibility that even a iliterate
programmer like me can provide an option for that.

So my wish is to have QML datasources/dataengines for more of the stuff Akonadi
handles - not only emails but akonadi feeds, contacts, reminders and the like.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
[0] https://github.com/shellscape/Gmail-Notifier-Plus
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455861

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