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On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 15:30:51 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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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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> > > |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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This is all OK. |
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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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> > |
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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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The latest Konqueror (stable) update to 4.14.20 fixed the one click problem, as |
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well as opening files within Konqueror itself, rather than opening a separate |
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dolphin window. Dolphin is still borked and behaves /irrationally/. I hope |
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the next update will fix that too. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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