I am running kubuntu 14.04 on an acer iconia tab w500. I have the eGalax proprietary driver installed, and multitouch is partially working (no pinch to zoom yet, but 2-finger scroll and long press for right-click works). On all other programs, the touchscreen seems to perform adequately, including other elements of Kontact. So, for example, clicking on a date in Calendar selects that date - clicking on an event selects that event and double clicking it opens the editor.

However, in Kmail, clicks with the touchscreen only seem to hover the cursor. I can't move the scroll bar (they become outlined, but don't move) and I cant select any element inside of the boxes. So, I can't select a favorite folder, when I try, the whole favorite folder box is highlighted and nothing happens. Same behavior for the message list - I click on a message, and I just see a breif synopsis of the message, it is not selected or preveiwed. I can scroll through the message list with a 2-finger scroll though.

I tried to switch to kmail-mobile and it works with my touch screen, but it is not integrated with kontact on the regular kde-desktop and the color scheme is really ugly in my environment. I tried to change the background image by uncommenting the QML.Image section of the kmail-mobile.qml, but when I did that it would not launch (error on "QML.Image", I did make sure I had a background image file in the folder).

Hoping for some help on this. I would like to migrate to kmail from thunderbird, but thunderbird is working for me with the touchscreen and kmail isn't

Please file a bug at bugs.kde.org so that the developers are aware of this issue.

Thanks,
Done:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334996

Hope it gets addressed. Disabled in favor of thunderbird on this machine for now.