[kdepim-users] KMail - Replying in HTML

Thu Aug 5 07:47:18 BST 2010

On 04/08/2010 20:17, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> To me it is strange that this is always such an emotional issue to
>> some.
>>
>> HTML email exist, is widely used and we already can read and compose
>> them in KMail (with some limitations) so why it should not be
>> possible to reply in HTML as well goes a bit beyond me.
>
> It's pretty simple.
>
> Reading is easy because KDE has a very good HTML rendering engine (which
> the widely used webkit, which is used by most modern browsers, is based
> on, btw). KMail simply uses this rendering engine for displaying HTML
> messages. In fact, we also use it for displaying non-HTML messages.
>
> Composing is already a bit harder. KMail uses a class provided by Qt for
> the composer, but this class provides only very limited support for
> composing HTML.
>
> In order to be able to reply to HTML the composer would need to be able
> to provide much better support for composing HTML. Unfortunately,
> neither Qt nor KDE provide a ready to use component for this and writing
> such a component is not an easy task.
>
> I hope this makes things a bit clearer.
Thanks Ingo - clear and informative as usual.

I quote from the loooong list of replies to KDE Bug 86423, is the guy 
correct and could it be as easily implemented as he suggests?
------------------------------------------------------------------
Qt 4.5!
QWebkit has now updated editing features, making it into the rich text 
editor we want. We can do the following:

1.: Add an selection option which editor you want: Katepart for plain text
reply (for people like the author of comment 15), QWebkit+Katepart for
perfectionist’s HTML reply (like thunderbird) or only QWebkit for HTML 
reply of
those not able or willing to code HTML (like gmail).

2.: If option 1 is set, the reply will be the classic “> cited message
[lienebreak] your plain text message”

3.: If option 2 is set, the reply-window will have 2 Tabs: [Rich text] 
(using
QWebkit) and [HTML source] (using Katepart).
     The cited message (=the innerHTML of the body of the message you 
reply to)
will be wrapped into a <blockquote class="old-mail"> tag styled to have a
colored (or grey) border on the left (right for arabic & co).
     When you switch to the [HTML source] tab, the innerHTML of the 
<body> of
your mail will be available for direct edit.
     When you swich back to the [Rich text] tab, the innerHTML of the <body>
will be updated.

piece of cake

PS: i will prototype it in python, since i can’t code cpp
PPS: this comment would be more lucid if formatted with HTML ;)
------- Comment #131 From flying-sheep at web.de 2010-01-26 17:12:51 (-) 
[reply] -------
sorry for spamming, but of course i meant we should add the
only-plain-text-kthxbye option for people like the author of _comment 14_,
instead of his critic

and selecting the third of my proposed options would delete the two tabs and
only make the rich-text-editor available

here a video of the features of the wysiwyg-text editor features of QWebkit:
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/blogs/2009/03/12/wysiwyg-html-editor/
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