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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
    New Message 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 OK See below
    Configure Notifications N/A 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), folded into the normal config dialog
    Report bug or request feature OK realised as link to bugs.kde.org - if possible have application pre-selected
    About KMail OK

    Home

    Category Action Status Comment
    Home Update All Folders OK
    Send Queued Messages OK Long press offers dialogue to specify "via..."
    Select Multiple Folders OK Initiate multiple selection
    Empty All Trash Folders OK
    Import Messages OK
    Favorites (OrderFlap) Reorder OK
    Delete OK
    Accounts (OrderFlap) Edit OK
    Delete OK
    Add OK
    Identities (OrderFlap) Edit OK
    Make Default OK
    Delete OK
    Add OK

    Account

    Category Action Status Comment
    Account Check Messages In Account OK
    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 Messages OK

    Single folder view

    Category Action Status Comment
    Folder Check Messages In Folder OK
    Mark All Messages as Read OK
    Move All Messages to Trash OK
    Remove Duplicate Messages OK
    Expire Rules OK
    Empty Trash OK only if folder is a trash folder
    Export Messages OK
    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
    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 N/A on / off - global setting [this is a viewer setting, not a folder 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
    Export Mails OK
    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
    Sort view Options: Date/Time; Sender/Reciever (intelligent); Subject; all Flags
    Use fixed fonts N/A on / off - global setting [viewer setting, not a folder 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 OK
    Find in email OK
    Save as Ok
    View Use fixed fonts on / off - global setting
    Copy all text to the clipboard
    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

    Functional Scope of Kontact Mobile - KMail Composer

    Following you will find a set contaxtual actions available in the KMail Mobile composer. This way the functional scope is defined.

    Note: categories are still preliminary! list is still incomplete!

    Category Action Status Comment
    Message Save as draft
    Save as template
    Edit Search Search in composer editor text
    Replace Search/replace in composer editor text
    Clean Spaces
    Add quote characters
    Remove quote characters
    Spell check
    Signature Append Signature all those refer to footers, not crypto signatures
    Prepend Signature
    Insert Signature at cursor
    Security Sign Email
    Encrypt Email
    Composer Close Composer
    Open Task Switcher


    Features needed in the attachment flap:

    • add file
    • remove attachment
    • attach public key
    • attach own public key
    • allow to select which attachments should be signed/encrypted


    Functional Scope of Kontact Mobile - KMail Configuration

    Following you will find a set of settings that need to be available in KMail Mobile.

    Note: categories are still preliminary! list is still incomplete!

    Category Action Status Comment
    Appearance Show HTML statusbar OK
    Replace smileys by emoticons OK
    Reduce font size for quoted text OK
    Composer Automatically insert signature OK
    Insert signature above quoted text OK
    Prepend separator to signatue OK
    Use smart quoting OK
    Automatically request message disposition notifications Config setting available, corresponding feature still missing
    Use recent addresses for autocompletion OK
    Word wrap at column enable/disable + configurable column
    Configure completion order OK
    Edit recent addresses OK
    Configure standard new mail/reply/forward templates Can simply be a flat list of fixed-height text edits
    Replace recognized reply prefixes OK
    Replace recognized forward prefixes OK
    Outlook compatible attachment naming OK
    Enable detection of missing attachments Config settings available, corresponding feature still missing
    Misc Empty local trash folder on program exit OK
    Invitations Outlook compatible invitations OK Merged version of the first 5 options in the corresponding desktop dialog, adding all of them explicitly is fine as well, but this is probably something that should be changed in the desktop version as well
    Automatic invitation sending OK
    Delete inviataion emails after the reply to them has been sent 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 KDEE 4.5 -
    • 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)
    • Filter
    • Threads / Move thread to trash / Mark thread as...
    • 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"