Projects/KDE PIM/Development/Mobile/KMail FunctionalScope

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    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 OK
    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
    About KMail OK

    Home

    Category Action Status Comment
    Home Sync all emails Under discusssion Send and recieve mails (VK: very confusing to have sync and check mail, even I wouldn't know the difference)
    Check emails OK Long press offers dialogue to specify account - Thought to be only fetching mails, not sending them - that is how I understood the functionallity in desktop version
    Send queued emails OK Long press offers dialogue to specify "via..."
    Select multiple folders OK Initiate multiple selection
    Empty all trash folders OK
    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

    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
    Mailing-list management Under discussion
    Empty trash only if folder is a trash folder
    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 OK Starts Bulk-Action dialogue (Move, Copy, Delete, Toggle Reminders / Alarms)
    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.)
    View options Under discussion View option address sorting of items etc.

    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?
    View Add as favorite / Rename favorite OK
    Change folder selection
    Start maintainence mode OK Starts Bulk-Action dialogue (Move, Copy, Delete, Toggle Reminders / Alarms)
    Prefer HTML to plain text
    Load external references
    Filter view Under discussion Possibility to filter the mails in the folder (e.g. by name, subject etc.)
    View options Under discussion View option address sorting of items etc.

    Message viewer

    Category Action Status Comment
    Email Reply Ok long press offers dialogue to choose non-standard reply
    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
    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"