[gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

[gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

Asking here since the kde-pim list suggested that this could be a 
Gentoo-specific problem I'm having.

In KDE KMail, when I enable the "only quote selected text when replying" 
feature under Configure -> Composer -> General, the reply behavior 
doesn't seem to change.  That is to say, if I try to select a line of 
text, and reply (as one would do with a mailing list, for example), the 
reply window quotes the entire message instead.  I've tried unchecking 
and rechecking the box, with an 'apply' after each change, to no avail.

Is this a bug?  How can I troubleshoot/fix this?

Kmail Version 5.13.3 (19.12.3) (according to the about panel) using the 
following profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

[Michael]

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On Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:55:41 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> In KDE KMail, when I enable the "only quote selected text when replying"
> feature under Configure -> Composer -> General, the reply behavior
> doesn't seem to change.  That is to say, if I try to select a line of
> text, and reply (as one would do with a mailing list, for example), the
> reply window quotes the entire message instead.  I've tried unchecking
> and rechecking the box, with an 'apply' after each change, to no avail.
> 
> Is this a bug?  How can I troubleshoot/fix this?
> 
> Kmail Version 5.13.3 (19.12.3) (according to the about panel) using the
> following profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma

I'm replying to this message using the same method of selecting only part of 
your message and evidently it works - I have left out the first paragraph of 
the original in my selection.

I have the same kmail version and profile like you.

Regarding the settings under General/Format, all are enabled except for 'Reply 
or forward using HTML if present'.  The word wrap is set at 78, not sure if 
this is the default and/or if it makes any difference.

Given the above it ought to work - or at least it does here.  Perhaps if you 
move out of the way any ~/.kmail2rc and restart kmail, it will create a 
default file for you to compare its contents against.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

On 2020-06-25 11:33, Michael wrote:
> I have the same kmail version and profile like you.

For most packages, I would ask you what your USE flags were, but KMail 
seems to rely on dependent packages for tweaking its internal parts.

Do you have any KDE framework/library USE customizations set?  I've 
tried to keep my KDE/QT setup pretty generic, since I've run into weird 
behavior before when trying to avoid certain dependencies.  Learned my 
lesson the hard way.

> Regarding the settings under General/Format, all are enabled except for 'Reply
> or forward using HTML if present'.  The word wrap is set at 78, not sure if
> this is the default and/or if it makes any difference.

I'll check on my setup later for comparison.  Maybe it has to work in 
combination with another setting?

> Given the above it ought to work - or at least it does here.  Perhaps if you
> move out of the way any ~/.kmail2rc and restart kmail, it will create a
> default file for you to compare its contents against.

This is a good suggestion, I'll try this later as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

[Michael]

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On Thursday, 25 June 2020 19:10:53 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> On 2020-06-25 11:33, Michael wrote:
> > I have the same kmail version and profile like you.
> 
> For most packages, I would ask you what your USE flags were, but KMail
> seems to rely on dependent packages for tweaking its internal parts.
> 
> Do you have any KDE framework/library USE customizations set?  I've
> tried to keep my KDE/QT setup pretty generic, since I've run into weird
> behavior before when trying to avoid certain dependencies.  Learned my
> lesson the hard way.

I have disabled networkmanager on plasma-meta and wifi on powerdevil from what 
I recall, but nothing else.


> > Regarding the settings under General/Format, all are enabled except for
> > 'Reply or forward using HTML if present'.  The word wrap is set at 78,
> > not sure if this is the default and/or if it makes any difference.
> 
> I'll check on my setup later for comparison.  Maybe it has to work in
> combination with another setting?
> 
> > Given the above it ought to work - or at least it does here.  Perhaps if
> > you move out of the way any ~/.kmail2rc and restart kmail, it will create
> > a default file for you to compare its contents against.
> 
> This is a good suggestion, I'll try this later as well.

By the way, the full path for the kmail config file is:

~/.config/kmail2rc

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