kmail: display current sender time

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements

Source i (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work):

Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

0
Become a Fan
5.0

Available as/for:
Description:
Some peoples (like me) are too stupid to calculate timezone offsets properly. So when email arrives at time you are sleeping and sender of email live on the other side of the earth, it is not so easy to find what is a current time on the other end.

To help, this patch on kdepim was created. It display current time on message sender`s end in the header part of the message.

I`m very unsure it would be useful for someone except me, so it is not filled as a wish on bugs.kde.org.

Background images and colors are subject to change if someone will suggest better variant :-)

Ratings & Comments

11 Comments

jazztyle

Patch ported to kdepim-3.5.8 Get it here: http://kdemod.ath.cx/svn/trunk/kdepim/04_kmail-fancy-currenttime.patch Apply with "patch -p1 -i 04_kmail-fancy-currenttime.patch" Works with normal kdepim and kdepim-enterprise Greetings from KDEmod Team :)

psdekloe

Another good idea of dmiceman. I realy like your work. Maybe you should contact the KDE developers team to get things like kfuseiso into the default distribution?

dmiceman

Thank you very much! :-) But this is different story for kfuseiso. It depends on too much things outside kde: linux (kde live on many OSes), fuse (mean recent linux kernel), fuseiso (which is pretty much should be separate application). There is a ways in which kde4 can be changed to allow better integration of things like kfuseiso, and i plan to look at this at times when kde4 will be closer, but don`t think what something more is needed.

suslik

Lately, I wish more and more that Konqueror and KMail would be extendible by extensions, like Firefox and Thunderburd. This is a great would-be plugin for that.

dmiceman

sure. but it can`t be achieved before kde4.

loggeman

Yes! File it as a wish at bugs.kde.org because I belive that this is a very useful feature to have in KMail. //Oskar

dmiceman

not sure.. as of current implementation i`m agree -- it don`t fit into kmail interface very well. and it is not reasonable to add extensive configuration for it. may be a best solution is to postpone it for a times when it can be implemented as a little plugin in a some scripting language.

anderslund

Make the colors configurable, in the great spirit of KDE ;) Make it only display the sender time if the sender is in a different time zone than the receiver.

dmiceman

Thank you for your suggestions :-) Configurable colors: It`s would be a real overkill :-) Configuration code will be several times bigger then feature, sorry.. Not display same timezone: Hmm.. As a man who live at night, that is not a bad idea to know what is a time of day are now outside. So.. Don`t know. If you wish, i`ll add this for you.

nemti

perhaps if the background was based on the users colour scheme? great idea, hopefully it will get merged into trunk

dmiceman

> perhaps if the background was based on the users colour scheme? :-) it would be nice to have night, morning, afternoon, evening colors in color theme, but currently it is not possible. currently there is a predefined colors, hard coded into C code, along with background images (gradients), like the existing spam-meter. not a best solution, but..

Pling
0 Affiliates
Details
license
version 20061024
updated
added
downloads 24h 0
mediaviews 24h 0
pageviews 24h 1

More Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements from dmiceman:

kmail templates
dmiceman
last update date: 18 years ago

Score 5.0

Other Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements:

Slicker Debian Package for Woody
cirrusgr
last update date: 22 years ago

Score 5.0

Konqueror/kdesktop suggestion
PovMan
last update date: 22 years ago

Score 5.0

Biiig buttons
dbojan
last update date: 20 years ago

Score 5.0

Yet Another KControl
Frans
last update date: 21 years ago

Score 5.0

Next window and next/previos window
dbojan
last update date: 20 years ago

Score 5.0

Fantasie Toolbar
katoe
last update date: 19 years ago

Score 5.0