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

[Andras Mantia]

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?

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.

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.

Andras
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