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Sorry for double post... |
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Kmail:5 doesn't show email as being sent.... |
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Will check again after full synchronisation. (Mailfolder is quite large) |
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On December 29, 2016 6:54:33 PM GMT+01:00, "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:11:27 AM CET J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> On December 27, 2016 3:38:28 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey |
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><peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> >On Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:07:23 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> >> More important, how is the latest kmail behaving? |
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>> > |
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>> >My first impression is one of horror. It's ghastly! |
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>> > |
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>> >I've never seen such profligate waste of screen space. I've attached |
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>a |
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>> >couple of screen shots to show you what I mean. |
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>> > |
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>> >Take the folder list, for example. I used to be able to show all |
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>those |
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>> >folders in one panel with no scroll-bars, with no difficulty reading |
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>> >them; |
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>> >now eight folders spill over. I may be able to find a more compact |
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>> >arrangement but this is the best I've managed so far. At least with |
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>> >kmail:4 |
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>> >I could tweak Qt settings to condense it; now nothing I do makes any |
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>> >improvement. |
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>> > |
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>> >Then the message view. Message.png shows what your message looks |
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>like |
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>> >in |
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>> >this version of KMail (the message I'm replying to now). This is |
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>with |
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>> >all |
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>> >the bells and whistles I can find switched off. |
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>> > |
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>> >Next, after I'd emerged kde-apps/kmai-16.12.0, it was incomplete. I |
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>had |
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>> >to |
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>> >install several other packages to complete it, including the import |
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>> >wizard. |
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>> >Rather than messing about, I just emerged kdepim-meta and had done |
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>with |
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>> >it. |
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>> > |
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>> >Even after doing that, I get "No backend available for spell |
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>checking," |
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>> >even |
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>> >though I've set everything up that I can see. Myspell and hunspell |
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>are |
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>> >both |
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>> >installed. |
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>> > |
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>> >In the message list I have next-to-no control over the font. I can |
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>set |
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>> >the |
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>> >basic one, but not those for unread, important or action items. |
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>They're |
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>> >now |
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>> >displayed in a reduced-density form of the basic font (while |
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>pretending |
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>> > |
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>> >they're going to use the same font as the message itself). The |
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>> >designers |
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>> >evidently know what I want better than I do (anyone might think this |
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>> >was |
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>> >Gnome). |
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>> > |
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>> >Nothing to do with KMail, but the display of gkrellm has changed |
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>> >dramatically. I use its Invisible theme, which hasn't actually been |
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>> >invisible since the switch from KDE-3 to 4, but it had a plain, |
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>> >unobtrusive |
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>> >grey scheme and showed what I wanted to see, clearly and with no |
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>drama. |
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>> >Now, |
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>> >the chart backgrounds have changed from charcoal-grey to a dark red, |
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>> >and |
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>> >what was grey is now a dreadful salmon-pink. Of course I can't see |
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>the |
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>> >red |
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>> >traces any longer. Perhaps I'm missing a KDE or Qt component. |
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>> > |
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>> >Oh, and when I start a reboot in KDE, akonadi crashes with a |
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>> >segmentation |
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>> >fault. |
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>> > |
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>> >I dare say version 16.12.0 of KMail-2 will make a decent platform |
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>for |
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>> >development, now that it's finally here, but a very great deal of |
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>work |
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>> >lies |
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>> >ahead. I can see that I'll be doing my fair share of shouting too, |
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>at |
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>> >it and |
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>> >at the devs. |
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>> > |
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>> >It's taken me about 30 hours to get this far. I ditched the old |
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>system |
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>> >altogether and built a new one on the kde-plasma profile. I didn't |
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>ask |
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>> >for |
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>> >anything in a slot 4, just slot 5 versions. I also ditched my old |
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>user |
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>> >and |
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>> >set up a new one from scratch. Headache? What headache? |
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>> > |
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>> >I think I'll have to go down the pub to drown my sorrows. |
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>> |
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>> My impressions will start here. Emailing using mobile while the IMAP |
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>mail is |
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>> being synchronised. That usually takes a few hours. |
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>> |
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>> Although that does appear to go faster now. I normally use Kontact |
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>for the |
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>> whole shebang. And it looks similar to version 4. |
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>> |
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>> The upgrade went quite smoothly, with a very rigorous cleaning |
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>exercise of |
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>> anything wanting older versions. Am expecting some possible issues |
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>when |
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>> reinstalling those. But will see how that goes later today. |
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>> |
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>> Full upgrade only took a couple of hours this morning. |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> Joost |
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>Ok, update time. |
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>I haven't been able to do much with it today as I had to go to the |
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>office. |
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>When I came back, various stuff had failed, but this is due to |
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>synchronizing |
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>all email (old offline-imap option) to the desktop and the |
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>home-partition had |
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>filled up. |
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>I cleaned up all the kdepim config-files and the database tables again |
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>and |
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>started kontact with a clean config. It is, again, synchronizing. |
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>I did not experience any crashes of akonadi or kontact during normal |
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>use and |
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>shutting down of applications (including akonadictl stop). |
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>With the exception of what I mentioned before, which can not be blamed |
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>on |
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>akonadi. |
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> |
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>Things I like so far: |
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>- Synchronisation seems to be faster, so is the rest of the interface. |
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>- Synchronisation of groupdav is smoother |
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>- There finally is a decent option to connect to office365 (including |
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>calendar) |
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>(with the above, I have only tested loading data, not tested modifying |
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>anything yet) |
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> |
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>Things I miss: |
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>- A configuration option inside "systemsettings", can not find the kcm |
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>for |
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>akonadi:5. |
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>- I can't find the little "-" icons which were present in the |
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>screenshots from |
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>Peter Humphrey. I was actually hoping to test those, but they don't |
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>appear. |
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> |
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>Things I don't like so far: |
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>- The default colour scheme (unread emails are by default a very |
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>light-colour |
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>blue, I prefer the old colourscheme. |
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>- Having to get rid of kmymoney due to incompatible libraries. (Why |
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>does a |
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>financial app have a hard-dependency on kdepimlibs????) |
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> |
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>More updates are likely to follow, if people are actually interested. |
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> |
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>The update to the current in-portage-tree version went quite smoothly |
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>once the |
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>blocking packages were identified and removed. (All of kdepim:4 needs |
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>to be |
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>removed first for portage to be able to identify all required |
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>keyword-changes) |
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>This was mostly due to running a mixed stable and unstable setup. |
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>If anyone is interested, I can provide the full keyword file I used. |
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>-- |
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>Joost |
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |