I have a few issues with KMail (as part of Kontact) that I thought I'd see if any of you could confirm or comment on before I possibly file some bug reports. Two of them, I'd consider bugs; two are wishlist items.
Keys get sticky when composing long messages When typing a medium-length e-mail (say, 15 lines or more, getting worse with length), the responsiveness of the Composer window declines severely. Single keystrokes are caught as double keystrokes or not at all. This happens regardless of whether or not automatic spellchecking is turned on. The system is a P3-500 with 384 MiB of RAM. I'm not seeing this in any other application (Kate gets slow at the end of long paragraphs, but it doesn't lose key-up/down events). Some phrases settings persist despite being changed Under Settings->Configure KMail->Composer->Phrases, I added the language presets for Swedish and British English, selected Swedish and removed U.S. English. Now, when trying to set it to (any) English, the change appears to take effect, but when replying to an e-mail or going back to the configuration dialogue after having closed it, the phrases are set to their Swedish values even though the language is set to English. The dialogue box seems deeply confused over the British English, U.S. English, and Swedish language settings, which ones are available, which one is set, and what their appropriate values are. Sometimes, it will offer two British English settings (one having Swedish values). At the moment, adding Swedish is no longer an option. kmailrc looks like so: [KMMessage #0] indent-prefix=>%_ language=en_GB phrase-forward=Vidarebefordrat brev phrase-reply=%D skrev du: phrase-reply-all=%D skrev %F: [KMMessage #1] indent-prefix=>%_ language=en_US phrase-forward=Vidarebefordrat brev phrase-reply=%D skrev du: phrase-reply-all=%D skrev %F: [KMMessage #2] language=en_US This is clearly corrupted. While I can fix it manually, it shouldn't happen. Wishlist: phrases language should be linked with chosen dictionary I communicate using e-mail in more than one language, and having to change the phrases settings in a tab in a section in a configuration dialogue box accessed from an item in a menu every time I switch language becomes tedious. What I'd like to see is the composer window automatically substituting the standard phrases for forwarding and replying to match the current dictionary choice. Wishlist: phrases should use appropriate locale for date Currently, the phrases function of the composer will, for example, substitute %D with the long date format of the user's chosen locale. When choosing a language preset for composer phrases that is different from the chosen locale (there are valid reasons for doing so; many users are bilingual), this leads to silly mixing of phrases in one language and month names and date formats more appropriate to another. Instead, the date substitution should use the locale appropriate for the chosen language preset when inserting standard phrases. -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-kde. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
