Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

[Indi]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:16:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > A while ago I eventually got my contacts back. I forget the actual
> > cause now, but I strongly suspect it involved tinkering with mysql,
> > and this may have broken in turn my calendar.
> >
> > I'm going to do one last test before consigning kdepim to the
> > trashbin: migrate everything to a new user and start with a default
> > config. If it works, I can migrate the data at my leisure.
>
> I swear, I am about to go postal and shoot someone. This issue with
> the calendar not being visible is fixed.
>
> Wanna know what it was?
>
> Calendar -> Settings -> Sidebar lists 4 things
>
> Show Date Navigator
> Show To-do View
> Show Item Viewer
> Show Calendar Manager
>
> That's weird, I see 4 ticks and 2 panes in the left sidebar. Let me
> hover for just a second.... Oh look, I can drag this divider bar. And
> fuck me sideways with a clue by 9 if I now don't see three calendar
> resources (the same three I set up in System Settings) and none of
> them have a tick. Tick all three. Oh but fuck me sideways again
> there's all my calendar items. Right click -> Add and I can make new
> ones. Double click an entry I can edit it.
>
> This has been a huge issue for 4 months since the first semi-usable
> kdepim betas were out. The default display after migration to kmail2
> was to collapse the Manager and To-Do panes to 0 pixels as The To-Do
> is positioned somewhere else in the kmail1 window layout and the
> Manager pane does not exist.
>
> Are there any visible clues in the divider to indicate the pane is
> collapsed to 0 pixels? No of course not! Don't be silly now!! Offer
> visible clues to the users? Surely you jest!!! Nonononono, we won't
> colour a collapsed divider differently, WE WILL TAKE IT AWAY ENTIRELY
> LEAVING JUST THE REGULAR PANES THAT ARE LEFT AND DELETE ALL CLUES
> THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THERE AND HIDDEN. But we will put a pretty
> pulsating glowing blue border around remaining panes for your
> enjoyment and delight when you hover over them?
>
> And did I mention that there is zero clues whatsoever in the settings
> dialog that these panes even exist at all? First page last tab is
> "Calendars" (it duplicates SystemSettings). Something that would be
> real nice right there is a column for Enabled/Disabled. Fancy that,
> give the user an alternate way to see stuff that makes the thing cease
> to work at all.
>
> Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena  major clusterfuck for
> me. And where I come from, that kind of monumental cock-up in a QA'ed
> release gets you fired. Or at least busted down to maintenance coder.
> Grrrrrrr...
>

Ha, so it's true then: using my blackberry as a PDA (sync'd to google 
calendar) and not bothering with that stuff on my computer anymore may 
indeed have saved lives. I suspected as much. :)

Sorry, not to make light of your predicament. I do sympathize.

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