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 OK
    Switch Window TO DO "Minimize Window"
    New Email OK Additional functionality needed: Long press shows list of all available templates (Mails saved in templates)
    Search ToDo Search For Emails
    Work Offline OK
    Configure ToDo Configure Mail
    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 TO DO "Report Bug Or Request Feature"

    realised as link to bugs.kde.org - if possible have application pre-selected

    About OK
    Edit "Out Of Office" Replies OK

    Home

    Category Action Status Comment
    Home Synchronize all emails TO DO "Synchronize All Accounts"
    Send Queued EMails TO DO "Send All Unsent Emails"

    Long press offers dialogue to specify "via..."

    Select Multiple Folders OK
    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 Resources TO DO "Synchronize This Account"
    Manage Local Subscriptions TO DO Local Subscriptions
    Properties TO DO "Account Properties"

    Edit dialogue for account configuration, should contain possibility for Renaming

    New TO DO "New Subfolder"

    Detailed Dialogue for new folder. Parent is prefilled

    Export Emails To Do Export Emails From This Account

    Single folder view

    Category Action Status Comment
    Folder Synchronize Emails in Folder TO DO "Synchronize This Folder"
    Mark All As Read TO DO "Mark Displayed Emails As Read"
    Move All To Trash To Do Move Displayed Emails To Trash
    Remove Duplicate Emails OK
    Expire Properties To Do Expiration Properties
    Empty Trash OK only if folder is a trash folder
    Export Emails To Do Export Displayed Emails
    Edit Properties TO DO "Folder Properties"
    New TO DO "New Subfolder"
    Move To OK Move Folder To
    Copy To OK Copy Folder To
    Delete Folder OK
    View Add As Favorite To Do Add View As Favorite
    Start Maintainence TO DO Switch To Editing Mode
    Prefer HTML To Plain Text OK
    Load External References OK
    Change Sorting/Grouping To DO Messagelist Display Format

    Multiple folder view

    Category Action Status Comment
    Folders Synchronize Folder TO DO "Synchronize These Folders"
    Mark All as Read To Do Mark Displayed Emails as Read
    Move All to Trash To Do Move Displayed Emails to Trash
    Remove Duplicate Emails OK
    Export Emails To Do Export Displayed Emails
    View Add As Favorite To Do Add View As Favorite
    Select Folders OK
    Start Maintenance TO DO Switch To Editing Mode
    Prefer HTML To Plain Text OK
    Load External References OK
    Change Sorting/Grouping To Do Messagelist Display Format

    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
    Forward Ok
    Mark As... To Do Mark As
    Send Again Ok
    Create To-Do/Reminder To Do Create Task From Email
    Create Event To Do Create Event From Email
    Find In Message To Do Find In Email
    Save As To Do Save Email As
    View Use Fixed Fonts OK on / off - global setting
    Copy Email To Clipboard OK
    Show Source OK
    Encoding OK
    Show All Recipients OK
    Attachments Save All Attachments Under Discussion Show only if attachments exists / View tbd
    Edit Edit Email OK
    Copy To To Do Copy Email To
    Move To To Do Move Email To
    Move To Trash To Do Move Email To Trash

    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!

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    Category Action Status Comment
    Message Send Later OK
    Save As Draft OK
    Save As Template 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
    Check Spelling OK
    Options Urgent OK
    Request Notification OK
    Wordwrap OK
    Use Fixed Font OK
    Attach Public Key OK
    Crypto Message Format OK
    Signature Append Signature OK
    Prepend Signature OK
    Insert Signature At Cursor Position OK
    Security Sign OK
    Encrypt OK
    Snippets Insert Snippet OK
    Add Snippet OK
    Edit Snippet OK
    Remove Snippet OK
    Add Group OK
    Rename Group OK
    Remove Group OK
    Composer Configure Transport OK
    Close Composer OK
    Switch Window TO DO "Minimize Window"

    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"