[kdepim-users] "Conflict resolution" message(s)

[Anders Lund]

On Torsdag den 11. oktober 2012 09:11:50 Andras Mantia wrote:
> Russ Kepler wrote:
> > I often get a "Conflict resolution" message when in mail, the attached
> > when I
> > sent a reply to an email I'd recently received.  I don't really know what
> > these messages are for and I tend to simply "take the left one".
> > 
> > Can someone explain what causes these and maybe some way to eliminate
> > them?

I often get those when marking mails as read or as spam (using "apply all 
filters" action).

Sometimes the dialog is hidden behind kmail (and possibly other windows), 
blocking kmail completely (and maybe other applications using akonadi).

> It says that there were two, conflicting modifications for the same item
> (mail). Here some application modified the mail to be read (\SEEN on the
> left part), while the other modified to mark it as read and replied (\SEEN,
> $REPLIED). You see the timestamp of the modifications and the difference.
> Take left/right is about which version do you want to keep.
> That is about the dialog. Now if this is user friendly or if it should
> appear or not it is another question.
> 
> The problems:
> 
> 1) It should appear only if really needed. E.g if you modify the same mail
> in KMail and another application. Apparently now it appears also when only
> KMail is involved, so if you could find how to reproduce, would be great.
> If you do, please report it on bugs.kde.org.

It has happened that since the appearence of kmail2.

Bug reports:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259574
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289901

> 2) The dialog is not user friendly, it is hard to find the differences
> especially if the change in not in the flags (like here), but in the message
> structure. Suggestions to improve it are welcome.

Highlight the exact change in each text field instead of the whole text - if 
the field is "$junk,$seen" or "$junk", highlight "$seen" for example, or the 
changed part of a date, etc. 

-- 
Anders
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