Kmail custom fonts dont work in messages list

[Mark Greenwood]

Binary package hint: kmail

Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha 4

kmail 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu7

Kmail Settings allows you to choose custom fonts for various things - i.e. message body, message list etc. Applying custom fonts to any of the 'Message List' options does not work, the font remains set to the default value. But all the other custom font choices do work.

[I-mail-o (i-mail-o)]

Version: 1.10.92 (using Devel)
Installed from: Compiled sources

KMail ignores custom font settings made in "settings" -> "appearance" -> "fonts". This is caused by the new message list settings.

Reproduce: I have choosen bold fonts in KMail settings for new and unread messages, but all new and unread messages appear in normal style:
http://imagebin.ca/view/HPO87htM.html

Thomas McGuire has already confirmed this bug:

"I'm not sure how to best fix this, though, as the font can also be specified in the setting of the theme. It is not clear if the font of the configure dialog should override all fonts of the theme (might not make sense for the fancy theme, where the sender/receiver has a different font, for example).
One option is to remove the message list stuff from the font settings altogether, and add a theme option for making the text bold instead."

I commented afterwards:

"If the settings would be integrated into the new theming, there should be an option to set a "new or unread" style for at least the subject."

[Jtamate (jtamate)]

*** Bug 181135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jtamate (jtamate)]

*** Bug 179915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jtamate (jtamate)]

*** Bug 182969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Joshua Dunamis (dunamis)]

This bug affect also to me! I cannot change the fonts settings in Kmail.

[Mcguire-c (mcguire-c)]

*** Bug 184229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Gerald-u (gerald-u)]

Unfortunately this bug turns out to be a showstopper for kmail users who are used to new or unread messages in bold. It may force people to stick to KDE 3.1.4 in their productive environment.

[Gerald-u (gerald-u)]

Sorry forthe typo - must read 4.1.4.

[Bko-8 (bko-8)]

So it looks like there's no workaround for this at all? I don't have theming enabled, and it still won't let me change the font sizes at all for the message list. I seem to have wrangled the folder list to respect a smaller font, but can't easily reproduce.

Aside - I've just been forcibly pushed into KDE4.2, and am finding lots of these kinds of surprises (one reason I reverted to 3.5.x about 6 months ago after experimenting with 4.x). I suspect we'll see quite a few new followers of these bugs over the next few weeks, as Debian has just dropped KDE 4.2 into their unstable branch.

[don Christophe (christophe-donchristophe)]

I'm pleased to use kde 4.2.2 but this bug prevent me to manage a great amount of mails: how to underline important ones if you can only rely on the beautifull little icons in front of each item in the list?
Thank you for the work!

[Dave (davedname)]

I also have this problem with the released Ubuntu 9.04

[Mcguire-c (mcguire-c)]

FYI: This is now a "junior job", see
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/KMail_Junior_Jobs#Bug_178402:_Font_settings_for_message_list_have_no_effect

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Screenshot please.

[Kollix (kollix)]

*** Bug 179702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Kollix (kollix)]

FYI: I'm currently working on this.

[Kollix (kollix)]

SVN commit 1009385 by mkoller:

BUG: 178402

Make custom fonts settings work again.

 M +0 -1 configuredialog.cpp
 M +1 -1 configuredialog_p.h
 M +1 -1 messagelistview/core/delegate.cpp
 M +7 -0 messagelistview/core/messageitem.h
 M +2 -30 messagelistview/core/model.cpp
 M +2 -47 messagelistview/core/theme.cpp
 M +1 -106 messagelistview/core/theme.h
 M +89 -132 messagelistview/core/themedelegate.cpp
 M +6 -9 messagelistview/core/themedelegate.h
 M +3 -3 messagelistview/core/themeeditor.cpp
 M +1 -1 messagelistview/core/themeeditor.h
 M +41 -33 messagelistview/storagemodel.cpp
 M +14 -1 messagelistview/storagemodel.h

WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1009385

[Mcguire-c (mcguire-c)]

*** Bug 203825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Andrey Krutov (hedin)]

I am not ubuntu user and don't check I it but in debian sid it looks like this.

[Kollix (kollix)]

*** Bug 204207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Graham-anderson (graham-anderson)]

Now working in openSUSE, thanks for the fix, much appreciated!

Version 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0) "release 155"

Repository: @System (KDE4 Factory)
Name: kdepim4
Version: 4.3.0-154.1
Vendor: openSUSE Build Service

[Andrey Krutov (hedin)]

I found this bug in kde bug track system
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178402

Patch is available in upstream
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1009385

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix committed upstream for KDE 4.3.1.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix released to Karmic.

[Andy Neitzke (neitzke)]

On my machine (Kubuntu, KMail 1.12.4, KDE 4.3.4) this isn't completely fixed: just now I tried changing the font size in the message list and found that the change had no effect. It turns out that it only takes effect after restarting KMail, but it took me a little while to figure that out.

[Peter Hatina (phatina)]

Running KMail 5.1.3, I also experienced this bug.

The only workaround I found is to manually edit the font settings in kmailrc:
UnreadMessageFont=Monospace,10,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0 <- this is bold
UnreadMessageFont=Monospace,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 <- this is not

the value 75 defines the bold font.

Please, fix this.

[Peter Hatina (phatina)]

Any updates?