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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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My first impression is one of horror. It's ghastly! |
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I've never seen such profligate waste of screen space. I've attached a |
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couple of screen shots to show you what I mean. |
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Take the folder list, for example. I used to be able to show all those |
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folders in one panel with no scroll-bars, with no difficulty reading 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 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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Then the message view. Message.png shows what your message looks like in |
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this version of KMail (the message I'm replying to now). This is with all |
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the bells and whistles I can find switched off. |
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Next, after I'd emerged kde-apps/kmai-16.12.0, it was incomplete. I had to |
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install several other packages to complete it, including the import wizard. |
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Rather than messing about, I just emerged kdepim-meta and had done with it. |
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Even after doing that, I get "No backend available for spell checking," even |
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though I've set everything up that I can see. Myspell and hunspell are both |
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installed. |
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In the message list I have next-to-no control over the font. I can set the |
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basic one, but not those for unread, important or action items. They're now |
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displayed in a reduced-density form of the basic font (while pretending |
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they're going to use the same font as the message itself). The designers |
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evidently know what I want better than I do (anyone might think this was |
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Gnome). |
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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, unobtrusive |
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grey scheme and showed what I wanted to see, clearly and with no drama. Now, |
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the chart backgrounds have changed from charcoal-grey to a dark red, and |
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what was grey is now a dreadful salmon-pink. Of course I can't see the red |
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traces any longer. Perhaps I'm missing a KDE or Qt component. |
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Oh, and when I start a reboot in KDE, akonadi crashes with a segmentation |
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fault. |
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I dare say version 16.12.0 of KMail-2 will make a decent platform for |
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development, now that it's finally here, but a very great deal of work lies |
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ahead. I can see that I'll be doing my fair share of shouting too, at it and |
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at the devs. |
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It's taken me about 30 hours to get this far. I ditched the old system |
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altogether and built a new one on the kde-plasma profile. I didn't ask for |
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anything in a slot 4, just slot 5 versions. I also ditched my old user and |
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set up a new one from scratch. Headache? What headache? |
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I think I'll have to go down the pub to drown my sorrows. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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