On Sunday 22 of September 2013 11:53:33 Garry T. Williams wrote:
After a recent update to 4.11.1, my settings in Kmail were changed to include detailed notifications of new mail messages. I previously had notifications set completely off.
Of course, it was easy to reset this (after I found where to do it again). But why would an update mess with my settings? (And what other settings were changed?)
None of your settings has been changed. Notifications about new emails are now handled by a dedicated Akonadi agent instead of KMail, so your KMail notification settings is not used anymore. We have decided to enable the agent by default to better advertise this new feature.
The advantage of a dedicated notification agent is, that it can show notifications even when KMail is not running, you can configure to be notified only for certain folders (for instance for inbox, but not for mailing list folder) and the notifications are much nicer - when there's only one new email, the notification will show sender, subject and start of the text (and sender photo when available); when there are multiple new emails, the notifications is like "3 new emails in inbox, 1 new email in Fedora-KDE".
Cheers, Dan
This seems like a very bad policy.