Projects/KDE PIM/Development/Mobile/KMail FunctionalScope

Functional Scope of Kontact Mobile - KMail

Following you will find a set contaxtual actions available in the different views Kontact Mobile - KMail offers. This way the functional scope is defined.

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Category	Action	Status	Comment
Kontact Mobile - KMail	Quit KMail	OK
	Open Task Switcher	OK
	Write new email		Additional functionality needed: Long press shows list of all available templates (Mails saved in templates)
	Find message		Opens Search Dialogue - behaves excactly the same as Multiple selection - so results can altered by going back to selection, Search+View can be saved as favorite
	Work offline	OK
	Configure KMail
	Configure notifications		Only enable general on / off for notifications. Do not use any more detailed dialogue. Notifications should follow the standard notifications on the phone (e.g. if phone is in silent mode, do not beep)
	Report bug or request feature		realised as link to bugs.kde.org - if possible have application pre-selected
	About KMail	OK

Home

Category	Action	Status	Comment
Home	Sync all emails	OK
	Send queued emails	OK	Long press offers dialogue to specify "via..."
	Select multiple folders	OK	Initiate multiple selection
	Empty all trash folders	OK
	Import E-Mails
Favorites (OrderFlap)	Reorder	OK
	Make / Remove default	Under Discussion	Default Favorite should be loaded when application starts / Only one default is possible / it must be possible to remove a default and have none - then app is starting with homepage -> Actually right now the application loads the last opend folder on startup, which doesn't seem unreasonable either
	Delete	OK
Accounts (OrderFlap)	Reorder	Under Discussion	Reordering is not available on the desktop either
	Edit	OK
	Delete	OK
	Add	OK
Identities (OrderFlap)	Edit	OK
	Make Default	OK
	Delete	OK
	Add	OK

Account

Category	Action	Status	Comment
Account	Check mail in account	OK
	Serverside subscription...	Not implemented	Nowadays both on desktop and mobile, the server side subscription dialog is accessible from the account configuration dialog.
	Local subscription...	OK
	Edit account	OK	Edit dialogue for account configuration, should contain possibility for Renaming
	Add subfolder	OK	Detailed Dialogue for new folder. Parent is prefilled
	Export Mails in Account

Single folder view

Category	Action	Status	Comment
Folder	Check emails in folder	OK
	Mark all emails as read	OK
	Move all emails to trash	OK
	Remove duplicate emails	OK
	Archive folder	Under Discussion	Is that really something you do on a phone?
	Expire rules	OK
	Mailing-list management	Under discussion
	Empty trash	OK	only if folder is a trash folder
	Export Mails
Edit	Edit folder	OK
	Add subfolder	OK
	Move folder to	OK
	Copy folder to	OK
	Delete folder	OK
View	Add as favorite / Rename favorite	OK
	Start maintainence mode		Additional feature: Add an overlay button "Select all" to this view
	Prefer HTML to plain text	OK
	Load external references	OK
	Filter view	Under discussion	Possibility to filter the mails in the folder (e.g. by name, subject etc.)
	Sort view		Options: Date/Time; Sender/Reciever (intelligent); Subject; all Flags - additionally most / last recent on top - change for all views / change only for this view (default)
	Use fixed fonts		on / off - global setting

Multiple folder view

Category	Action	Status	Comment
Folders	Check emails in selected folders	OK
	Mark all emails as read	OK
	Move all emails to trash	OK
	Remove duplicate emails	OK	Removal is per folder
	Archive selected folders	Under Discussion	Is that really something you do on a phone?
	Export Mails
View	Add as favorite / Rename favorite	OK
	Change folder selection	OK
	Start maintainence mode		Additional feature: Add an overlay button "Select all" to this view
	Prefer HTML to plain text	OK
	Load external references	OK
	Filter view	Under discussion	Possibility to filter the mails in the folder (e.g. by name, subject etc.)
	Sort view		Options: Date/Time; Sender/Reciever (intelligent); Subject; all Flags
	Use fixed fonts		on / off - global setting

Message viewer

As an overlay button on the message we need a "magic next" button. This button jumps to the next unread message (even if that is in another folder).

Category	Action	Status	Comment
Email	Reply		additional Feature: Add "Without quote" to long press dialogue
	Forward	Ok	long press offers dialogue to choose non-standard reply
	Mark email as...	OK	unread / read / important,... Works, but not as a submenu of Email.
	Send again	Ok
	Create to-do reminder
	Find in email	OK
	Save as	Ok
View	Use fixed fonts		on / off - global setting
Attachments	Save (all)	Under Discussion	Show only if attachments exists / View tbd
Edit	Edit email	OK
	Copy email to folder	OK
	Move email to folder	OK
	Delete email	OK

Open

Here you can find functionallity that still needs to be discussed, wether it makes sense to add it to the mobile version of KDE PIM.

We do not need this

• Print, Rationale: not practical from a handheld decive, most have no printer connection
• Shortcuts (keyboard "accellerators"), Rationale: not needed in a touch screen handheld
• General Sieve Skripts
• Out of office replies - use web-interface if needed
• Multiple views - substituted by favorites concepts
• Select all text - shortcut - not needed
• Expire all folders - should be done automatically - no need to show this in the interface
• Refresh local imap cache - not needed in E4.5 -
• Undo

We need to discuss this

• Templates (Format of replies etc.) - global, identity, folder - what do we need? - if possible move to external configurator - definitely no templates needed for folders
• Certificate Manager - we need to provide basic features on the phone, supported by Kleopatra on the desktop; analysis of problems should be possible mobile
• What does subscription actually do? Belongs to account level.
• View source - how expensive is this?
• Use fixed font - how expensive is this?
• Copy - check that copying text is possible
• General log viewer should contain: GnuPG log viewer, KDebug, Std. Error, ...
• To many receivers warning, if replying to X addressees a visual reminder or dialog should be shown
• Which email forwarding "modes" do we need? Currently with e3.5 it's possible to forward a mail "in line", "as attachment" or to redirect a mail.

We need to integrate this

• Show message structure - we need some smart solution to handle multiple attachement and enbedded mails and to include parts of other objects into object (e.g. mail - to substitute drag&drop)
• Import messages / Open... / Save / Export - only provide basic import functionality (e.g. mbox and maildir)
• Filter
• Threads / Move thread to trash / Mark thread as...
• select all messages - needs to be included in bulk actions
• Go options - we should integrate only next (no previous) unread mail (magic next button) - other "Go" options are not needed
• Anti-Spam (we will not provide an anti spam program - but we should be able to sort incoming mails by server added tags)
• Anti-Virus (we will not provide an anti virus program - but we should be able to sort incoming mails by server added tags)
• Folder specific sync & bandwidth and netstatus specific sync parameter
• Fulltext search in attachments
• Attachment missing warning if the email text contains the word attachment or "Anhang"