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