A few things about the interface:

The folderview is pretty much useless in this state. No single foldername is visible in it’s entirety. Instead of the “…”, just print the name until the end of screen space and then cut it off. Remove the “unread” and “total” columns and just instead put the number of unread mails in brackets behind the folder name and then you have twice amount the space for the folder name and a lot less clutter as a bonus.

The favorite folder view on top of the program also looks very cluttered due to varying width of the items. Don’t know what to do about that though. Wordwrap, fixed width with cutoff maybe. Also, it wastes a lot of vertical space due to there being a lot of whitespace.

toma, October 4th, 2009 at 18:47
@Dread Knight Would be nice if you explain why it looks like crap instead of this useless comment.

I think Dread Knight meant widget theme. And I agree – it’s ugly (see problematic zones here – http://img41.yfrog.com/img41/9759/mailodyinkontact.png ). BTW – this is one of the questions that i have for years – why there no decent default theme for GTK and Qt apps? At least like in Windows 3.11?

One thing I do wonder is whether it will be (technically?) possible for an individual application not to crash Kontact (and therefore close all other applications) when it crashes. I had this experience with it a few releases ago that Akregator would crash everything, so I ended up not using Kontact at all.

I understand that it can be really handy for email client developing, but that also doesn’t seem a too common business ;)

One feature that puts Kontact above the others, is being able to “drag” an e-mail to the calendar as an event.

I’ve been looking for work, and the e-mail/event is more of a permanent record of a job search than to-dos – to-dos are less secure as to the purge function.

Being able to “link” a journal to an event would be a plus also.

Otherwise, an excellent PIM!