[kmail2] [Bug 469713] New: Substitution of one's own address leads to grammar garbage in German
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469713
Bug ID: 469713
Summary: Substitution of one's own address leads to grammar
garbage in German
Classification: Applications
Product: kmail2
Version: 5.22.2
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: UI
Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org
Reporter: georg.schw...@freenet.de
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
When displaying an email, kmail2 substitutes the user's own address/identity in
To and From lines in the header pane.
At least in German, this results in grammatical garbage.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use kmail2 with the UI language set to German (e.g. on a system with system
language German)
2. Open an Email which has been sent to or by the user.
OBSERVED RESULT
The user's identity is displayed as "Von: Ich" or "An: Ich" in the header
pane's From or To lines.
EXPECTED RESULT
Grammatically correct it should read "Von: mir" and "An: mich" ("From: me" and
"To: me").
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
probably any
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The issue is brought about be the fact that the two repositions "von" ("from")
and "an" ("to") in German require different cases of the personal pronoun,
which in the first person singular have different forms (unlike in English).
"ich" (which unlike in English should not be capitalized), i.e. Nominative, is
am utterly incorrect choice for both cases.
I had a look at the code and it seems there are no provisions for
distinguishing between the different cases, i.e. different header lines. In
both cases the substitution is deeply buried in
StringUtil::emailAddrAsAnchor(). (Looking at
https://api.kde.org/legacy/3.5-api/kdepim-apidocs/kmail/html/kmmessage_8cpp_source.html#l03768)
(not sure it that's the current code or whether this specific one is from an
outdated version; in any case there still should be comparable code with the
current release which performs the substitution).
Unfortunately this seems to be a case of specific cultural/linguistic
structures not being sufficiently considered in the code.
I am wondering whether further languages such as e.g. Russian are also affected
by this phenomenon.
My sincere suggestion is to add an option to switch off that substitution of
one's displayed email address/identify altogether. For the sake of transparency
I would appreciate such an option in any language anyway.
Unfortunately it looks like that substitution is quite deeply buried in the
code so it is maybe not obvious where the best location would be for that
setting.
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[kmail2] [Bug 467796] Two Kmail icons appearing in dock
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[kmail2] [Bug 467818] New: Rightmost column's width cannot be changed
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467818 Bug ID: 467818 Summary: Rightmost column's width cannot be changed Classification: Applications Product: kmail2 Version: 5.22.2 Platform: Manjaro OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: message list Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org Reporter: georg.schw...@freenet.de Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY The width of the rightmost's column in a folder's (e.g. Inbox's) message list remain at/reverts to a fixed default value. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open any folder's message list 2. try to resize the width of the rightmost column, or move another colum to the very right to make it the rightmost OBSERVED RESULT When trying to rezise the rightmost column, you can only move horizonally its left border. This however results in rezising of the second lefotmost colum's width only and an expansion of the overall (virtual) width of the message list (when moving it to the right). When moving a column to the right to make it the rightmost, changing the order of the colums, that colum's width springs to some fixed default value and forgets about its previously set width. EXPECTED RESULT Being able to resize the width of the rightmost column; at the very least retaining the width of an item when being moved to the rightmost position. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Majaro Linux with XFCE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This bug has previously been reported but it was closed due to inactivity. However it is not resolved and still present. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364967 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[kmail2] [Bug 467796] New: Two Kmail icons appearing in dock
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467796 Bug ID: 467796 Summary: Two Kmail icons appearing in dock Classification: Applications Product: kmail2 Version: 5.22.2 Platform: Manjaro OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org Reporter: georg.schw...@freenet.de Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY Using XFCE with Plank as a dock, two Kmail icons appear in the dock when kmail is running, both labelled "KMail". One of the icons is featuring a zero in a red filled circle. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install plank (other docks might exhibit the same phenomenon) on XFCE (not sure if other desktop environments exhibit the same issue) 2. launch kmail OBSERVED RESULT two KMail icons in the dock EXPECTED RESULT only one Kmail icon in the dock SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Manjaro Linux with XFCE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This might be related to the following bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359600 Also, it is conspicuous that KMail's .desktop file does not have a StartWMClass entry. Adding StartWMClass=kmail does not change things though. However I noticed when I add that line to kmail_view.desktop, still two icons appear in the dock, but one of them is now labelled "kmail view" instead of just "kmail". Are two applications (threads or whatever it is called) launched, and the desktop environment does not understand that they are in fact one single kmail instance? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
