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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 OK Additional functionality needed: Long press shows list of all available templates (Mails saved in templates)
Find Message OK Opens Search Dialogue - behaves excactly the same as Multiple selection - so results can altered by going back to selection
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
Manual OK A manual "first steps" will be available on the client - with a link to the "Kontact Mobile Userbase Wiki"
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 Synchronize all Emails 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 Emails OK
Configure Filters OK
Favorites (OrderFlap) Reorder OK
Delete OK
Accounts (OrderFlap) Edit OK
Delete OK
Add OK
Identities (OrderFlap) Add OK
Modify OK
Rename OK
OK OK

Account

Category Action Status Comment
Account Synchronize Emails In Account OK
Manage 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 Emails OK

Single folder view

Category Action Status Comment
Folder Synchronize Emails In Folder OK
Mark All Emails As Read OK
Move All To Trash OK
Remove Duplicate Emails OK
Expire Properties OK
Empty Trash OK only if folder is a trash folder
Export Emails OK
Edit Edit Folder OK
Add Subfolder OK
Move Folder To OK
Copy Folder To OK
Delete Folder OK
View Add As Favorite
Start Maintainence OK
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)

Multiple folder view

Category Action Status Comment
Folders Synchronize Emails In Folders OK
Mark All Emails As Read OK
Move All To Trash OK
Remove Duplicate Emails OK Removal is per folder
Export Emails OK
View Add As Favorite OK
Select Folder OK
Start Maintainence OK
Prefer HTML To Plain Text OK
Load External Rreferences OK
Sort view Options: Date/Time; Sender/Reciever (intelligent); Subject; all Flags

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 OK additional Feature: Add "Without quote" to long press dialogue
Forward Ok long press offers dialogue to choose non-standard reply
Mark As... OK unread / read / important,... Works, but not as a submenu of Email.
Send Again Ok
Create To-Do/Reminder OK
Create Event OK
Find In Message OK
Save As Ok
View Use Fixed Fonts OK on / off - global setting
Copy Email To Clipboard OK
Show Source OK
Encording OK
Show All Recipients OK
Attachments Save All Attachments Under Discussion Show only if attachments exists / View tbd
Edit Edit Email OK
Copy Item To... OK
Move Item To OK
Move To Trash 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 Sign Email OK
Encrypt Email OK
Request receipt notice
Urgent (Mail Priority)
Save as draft OK
Save as template OK
Send later
Append Signature OK all those refer to footers, not crypto signatures
Prepend Signature OK
Insert Signature at cursor OK
Edit Search OK Search in composer editor text
Continue Search
Replace OK Search/replace in composer editor text
Clean Spaces OK
Add quote characters OK
Remove quote characters OK
Spell check
Automatic word wrapping
fixed character width
Attachments Add File OK
Remove Attachment
Add as Attachment
Attach public key
Attach own public key
Attachment Properties allow to select which attachments should be signed/encrypted
Composer Configure Identity Missing in the identity editor: Define folder for sent messages
Configure Transport OK
Close Composer OK
Open Task Switcher OK
Manual A manual "first steps" will be available on the client - with a link to the "Kontact Mobile Userbase Wiki"
Report bug or request feature OK realised as link to bugs.kde.org - if possible have application pre-selected
About KMail OK

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 OK
Use recent addresses for autocompletion OK
Word wrap at column OK
Configure completion order OK
Edit recent addresses OK
Configure standard new mail/reply/forward templates OK
Replace recognized reply prefixes OK
Replace recognized forward prefixes OK
Outlook compatible attachment naming OK
Enable detection of missing attachments OK
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"