[kdepim-users] Font size in KMail HTML viewer

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 06 September 2010, Stan Goodman wrote:
> At 21:56:49 on Monday Monday 06 September 2010, Ingo Klöcker
> 
> <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 September 2010, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > At 23:12:25 on Sunday Sunday 05 September 2010, Ingo Klöcker
> > > 
> > > <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 05 September 2010, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > > Changing the font size in the message window is duck soup,
> > > > > but I do not find a way to do the same thing for the HTML
> > > > > viewer. What am I overlooking?
> > > > > 
> > > > > KMail is v1.9.10.
> > > > 
> > > > That's KDE 3.5.10.
> > > 
> > > That's true.
> > > 
> > > > I assume by message window you mean the separate message viewer
> > > > one gets by double clicking a message. And by HTML viewer you
> > > > mean the message pane in the main window, right?
> > > 
> > > The message window is where one reads the plain-text of incoming
> > > messages. The HTML viewer is where a HTML-formatted version is
> > > displayed.
> > 
> > Hmm. I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
> 
> I don't know how it can be made more clear.
> 
> > > > You can change the font size in both viewers for example with
> > > > Ctrl+Mouse wheel.
> > > 
> > > My mouse doesn't have wheels. I can change the font size in the
> > > message window by Settings > Configure KMail > Appearance >
> > > Fonts. I do not see a way to either choose a font or change the
> > > style or size of an existing font. Surely there must be a way.
> > 
> > The thing with HTML is that the HTML tells KMail which font size to
> > use. I'm not sure whether the standard keyboard shortcuts of
> > Konqueror for changing the font size work in KMail 1.9. Try
> > whether Ctrl+Plus (and Ctrl+Minus) work. (In KMail 1.13 they do
> > not work. :-( )
> 
> Then maybe this is a good time to try Evolution. Perhaps it is more
> complete than KMail in this respect.
> 
> ^+ and ^- are normal for browsers; one  would have thought that the
> developers of KMail would have understood why they are handy.
> Apparently they don't.

Yeah, we don't. The reason for this is probably that the KMail developer 
(me included) don't receive an awful lot of HTML mail that we actually 
care to look at in HTML mode. Therefore, all of those annoying HTML 
messages with way too small font sizes (unknowingly enforced by the 
senders of those messages) have never bothered us enough to make us add 
this functionality. Yeah, we are lame bastards. If you think the 
Evolution guys are cleverer than us then go try their product. I won't 
shed a tear.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but all of those threats of users that they will 
switch to another application if we don't implement some feature they 
cannot live without are laughable. If they are lucky then we will simply 
ignore their ridiculous threats, but I'd guess most of the time we will 
not only ignore their threats but we will also ignore their request. So 
by threatening us either you achieve exactly nothing or you achieve the 
opposite of what you thought you'd achieve.


> I find the text displayed in the HTML viewer to be so small that I
> need to squint, or sometimes to give up reading it and go on to
> something more productive. It is very hard to believe that there is
> no means provided to enlarge the text. Or to use instead an external
> viewer like a browser.

I suggest that you simply switch to plain text mode for those messages. 
If in plain text mode you don't see the full text and in the HTML mode 
the fonts are way too small then the sender probably doesn't want you to 
read his message. Complain to him that he shouldn't send messages with 
such a small font size.


Regards,
Ingo
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