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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 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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Check your language/internationisation settings. |
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The translations is from "kde-apps/kdepim-l10n" |
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> And another: if I move my user account away and create a new one, setting |
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> KDE plasma up from scratch (this is ~amd64), the system-settings panel has |
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> no icons and the single-click-to-open preference is ignored, even though |
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> it's the default and I already have it set anyway. Then, if I revert to the |
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> original home directory, which has followed events through the last six |
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> months, those faults disappear. |
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Hmm... not sure where this comes from |
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> > Work the real problem, not an assumed one :-) |
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> Of course - when I can find it! I'm just trying to ensure that the system is |
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> clean before I go tilting at windmills. Possibly, I'm just seeing the |
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> immaturity of KDE-5. So be it, if so. |
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Could be... |
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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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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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Joost |
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