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On December 27, 2016 3:38:28 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey <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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>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 |
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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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>Then the message view. Message.png shows what your message looks like |
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>in |
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>this version of KMail (the message I'm replying to now). This is with |
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>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 |
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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 with |
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>it. |
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>Even after doing that, I get "No backend available for spell checking," |
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>even |
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>though I've set everything up that I can see. Myspell and hunspell are |
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>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 |
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>the |
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>basic one, but not those for unread, important or action items. They're |
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>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 |
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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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>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 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 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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>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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>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 |
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>lies |
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>ahead. I can see that I'll be doing my fair share of shouting too, at |
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>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 |
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>anything in a slot 4, just slot 5 versions. I also ditched my old user |
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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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My impressions will start here. Emailing using mobile while the IMAP mail is being synchronised. That usually takes a few hours. |
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Although that does appear to go faster now. I normally use Kontact for the whole shebang. And it looks similar to version 4. |
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The upgrade went quite smoothly, with a very rigorous cleaning exercise of anything wanting older versions. |
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Am expecting some possible issues when reinstalling those. But will see how that goes later today. |
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Full upgrade only took a couple of hours this morning. |
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Joost |
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |