Sorry for double post... Kmail:5 doesn't show email as being sent.... Will check again after full synchronisation. (Mailfolder is quite large)
On December 29, 2016 6:54:33 PM GMT+01:00, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >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 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
