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