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On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:11:27 AM CET J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On December 27, 2016 3:38:28 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey |
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<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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> > |
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> >My first impression is one of horror. It's ghastly! |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> >for |
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> >anything in a slot 4, just slot 5 versions. I also ditched my old user |
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> >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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> My impressions will start here. Emailing using mobile while the IMAP mail is |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> anything wanting older versions. Am expecting some possible issues when |
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> 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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> -- |
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> Joost |
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Ok, update time. |
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I haven't been able to do much with it today as I had to go to the office. |
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When I came back, various stuff had failed, but this is due to synchronizing |
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all email (old offline-imap option) to the desktop and the home-partition had |
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filled up. |
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I cleaned up all the kdepim config-files and the database tables again and |
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started kontact with a clean config. It is, again, synchronizing. |
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I did not experience any crashes of akonadi or kontact during normal use and |
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shutting down of applications (including akonadictl stop). |
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With the exception of what I mentioned before, which can not be blamed on |
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akonadi. |
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Things I like so far: |
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- Synchronisation seems to be faster, so is the rest of the interface. |
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- Synchronisation of groupdav is smoother |
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- There finally is a decent option to connect to office365 (including calendar) |
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(with the above, I have only tested loading data, not tested modifying |
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anything yet) |
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Things I miss: |
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- A configuration option inside "systemsettings", can not find the kcm for |
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akonadi:5. |
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- I can't find the little "-" icons which were present in the screenshots from |
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Peter Humphrey. I was actually hoping to test those, but they don't appear. |
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Things I don't like so far: |
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- The default colour scheme (unread emails are by default a very light-colour |
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blue, I prefer the old colourscheme. |
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- Having to get rid of kmymoney due to incompatible libraries. (Why does a |
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financial app have a hard-dependency on kdepimlibs????) |
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More updates are likely to follow, if people are actually interested. |
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The update to the current in-portage-tree version went quite smoothly once the |
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blocking packages were identified and removed. (All of kdepim:4 needs to be |
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removed first for portage to be able to identify all required keyword-changes) |
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This was mostly due to running a mixed stable and unstable setup. |
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If anyone is interested, I can provide the full keyword file I used. |
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Joost |