There were numerous suggestions to redesign the bar:
Official KDE bug tracker the bug #393421 closed as “intentional” back in 2018. The line is still there, fresh complaints pop-up from time to time on Reddit and StackExchange.
What would be the most productive way to engage with the relevant team and discuss this in a civil manner?
P.S. Apologies for not providing the links, new account.
Yeah what bar needs to go away. Ideally with Wrap message parts content inside iframes (!198) · Merge requests · PIM / PIM Messagelib · GitLab the reason for its existence would go away entirely.
I also proposed an alternative design Replace html status bar by a button (!169) · Merge requests · PIM / PIM Messagelib · GitLab
Was there any traction after the last comment by Daniel Vrátil on the merge request 169? 11th of April 2024.
P.S. Yes, I still can’t link it due to the forum restrictions.
Unfortunately not, I couldn’t find time and motivation to work on it. We discussed it a bit at the PIM sprint 2 months ago but that’s it.
P.S. I increased your user rights so you should be able to posts links now 
@carl Given that, according to the link, Fedora KDE patched in your proposal already, is there any way to get this for others, e.g. Arch? Short of compiling+patching Kmail myselve?
