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On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 13:38:13 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 11:56:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 12:06:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > You should elaborate more and be specific on what you mean by "The |
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> > > reason is an intermittent series of apparently unrelated things going |
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> > > wrong." |
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> > Here's one then: In KMail (yes, I know*) the folder list contains an |
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> > item |
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> > "trash" (ugh!), but when I come to empty it it's called "Wastebin" (much |
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> > better) in the drop-down menu. |
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> |
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> Check your language/internationisation settings. |
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> The translations is from "kde-apps/kdepim-l10n" |
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I can't find anything wrong with those settings. Everything is set to |
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British English. |
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$ locale -a |
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C |
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en_GB |
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en_GB.iso88591 |
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en_GB.iso885915 |
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en_GB.utf8 |
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POSIX |
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$ eselect locale list |
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Available targets for the LANG variable: |
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[1] C |
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[2] en_GB |
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[3] en_GB.iso88591 |
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[4] en_GB.iso885915 |
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[5] en_GB.utf8 * |
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[6] POSIX |
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[ ] (free form) |
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> > And another: if I move my user account away and create a new one, |
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> > setting KDE plasma up from scratch (this is ~amd64), the system-settings |
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> > panel has no icons and the single-click-to-open preference is ignored, |
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> > even though it's the default and I already have it set anyway. Then, if |
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> > I revert to the original home directory, which has followed events |
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> > through the last six months, those faults disappear. |
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> Hmm... not sure where this comes from |
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But this time, the single-click-to-open preference is still ignored. |
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You see, the system is behaving inconsistently - even irrationally at times. |
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--->8 |
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> > * I've seen references to KMail 5.0.3 already Out There, so I'm sticking |
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> > with it in the hope that 5.* will be more solid. |
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> I'm still using Kmail 4.x until Kmail 5 becomes unmasked... |
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As far as I can see, Kmail 5 isn't even in the tree yet. |
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> If you want a truly clean build: |
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> emerge -ae @system |
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> emerge -ae @world |
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> emerge -a --depclean |
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> (That's what I did last time I had too many strange issues) |
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I've done that or similar many times over the last several weeks. I think |
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I'm left with just one sensible option: to build a new system from scratch, |
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complete with a new user account, not carrying anything but necessities over |
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from the current system. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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