On December 27, 2016 3:38:28 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >On Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:07:23 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> More important, how is the latest kmail behaving? > >My first impression is one of horror. It's ghastly! > >I've never seen such profligate waste of screen space. I've attached a >couple of screen shots to show you what I mean. > >Take the folder list, for example. I used to be able to show all those >folders in one panel with no scroll-bars, with no difficulty reading >them; >now eight folders spill over. I may be able to find a more compact >arrangement but this is the best I've managed so far. At least with >kmail:4 >I could tweak Qt settings to condense it; now nothing I do makes any >improvement. > >Then the message view. Message.png shows what your message looks like >in >this version of KMail (the message I'm replying to now). This is with >all >the bells and whistles I can find switched off. > >Next, after I'd emerged kde-apps/kmai-16.12.0, it was incomplete. I had >to >install several other packages to complete it, including the import >wizard. >Rather than messing about, I just emerged kdepim-meta and had done with >it. > >Even after doing that, I get "No backend available for spell checking," >even >though I've set everything up that I can see. Myspell and hunspell are >both >installed. > >In the message list I have next-to-no control over the font. I can set >the >basic one, but not those for unread, important or action items. They're >now >displayed in a reduced-density form of the basic font (while pretending > >they're going to use the same font as the message itself). The >designers >evidently know what I want better than I do (anyone might think this >was >Gnome). > >Nothing to do with KMail, but the display of gkrellm has changed >dramatically. I use its Invisible theme, which hasn't actually been >invisible since the switch from KDE-3 to 4, but it had a plain, >unobtrusive >grey scheme and showed what I wanted to see, clearly and with no drama. >Now, >the chart backgrounds have changed from charcoal-grey to a dark red, >and >what was grey is now a dreadful salmon-pink. Of course I can't see the >red >traces any longer. Perhaps I'm missing a KDE or Qt component. > >Oh, and when I start a reboot in KDE, akonadi crashes with a >segmentation >fault. > >I dare say version 16.12.0 of KMail-2 will make a decent platform for >development, now that it's finally here, but a very great deal of work >lies >ahead. I can see that I'll be doing my fair share of shouting too, at >it and >at the devs. > >It's taken me about 30 hours to get this far. I ditched the old system >altogether and built a new one on the kde-plasma profile. I didn't ask >for >anything in a slot 4, just slot 5 versions. I also ditched my old user >and >set up a new one from scratch. Headache? What headache? > >I think I'll have to go down the pub to drown my sorrows.
My impressions will start here. Emailing using mobile while the IMAP mail is being synchronised. That usually takes a few hours. Although that does appear to go faster now. I normally use Kontact for the whole shebang. And it looks similar to version 4. The upgrade went quite smoothly, with a very rigorous cleaning exercise of anything wanting older versions. Am expecting some possible issues when reinstalling those. But will see how that goes later today. Full upgrade only took a couple of hours this morning. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
