[kdepim-users] Trying to improve the new email notifications

[Marc Deop]

On Monday 17 June 2013 13:25:35 Marc Deop wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> I think the "new email" notification is too simple so I'm trying to make it better suit my needs. What I want is quite simple: if there's just a few new emails (say less than 5) make the notification show the subject and a small part of the body.
> 
> I've played a little bit with notify-send (from libnotify) in skype setting things like:
> 
> notify-send "A contact came online" "%sname is now online" -i skype
> 
> Notice the "%sname" which shows me that the skype notifications system is storing the contact's name in the %sname variable. Now: does something like that exists in kde/kmail/kontact's notification system?
> 
> having something like %subject or %body would make my job much easier than getting to query akonady for the information (besides, it'd be repeting a recently done job ;-) )
> 
> Does anybody have any information in this subject? should I ask in the devel list?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information you can provide me!
> 
> 

I've contacted the developers and it appears kmail, as of right now, only sends a notification. It doesn't store any kind of information in the process.

However, I've been told this will probably be worked on for the 4.12 release ;-)

Regards
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