Re: KMail is a real mess after upgrading to KDE 4.2

Em S=E1b 07 Fev 2009, Eli Wapniarski escreveu:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009 08:31:20 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > Hi, people
> >
> > I've just upgraded KDE to 4.2 from updates-testing and generally
> > speaking, I liked the upgrade. There were some minor problems, but
> > all in all it's good.
> > Kmail, however, is a real mess. The message list panel is
> > completely broken. The columns I had selected to be shown there and
> > their order were lost and all the 17 columns that can be selected
> > to be shown were checked, including two columns for the sender of
> > for the recipient depending on the selected folder, because the
> > sender/recipient, sender and recipent columns were all checked. But
> > the problem is worst, because after reconfiguring all this, I see
> > that every time I close Kmail and reopen it, all message list panel
> > configuration is lost and all the 17 columns are shown again.
> > Also, the columns which have just icons in their contents, like the
> > spam/not spam, attachments, important and others, now have texts on
> > their headers. Theses columns are normally set to be just as wide
> > as necessary to the icons to be shown. With texts in their
> > captions, only the first letter of the header appears. This is a
> > regression, because until kde 4.1.4 kmail used icons on the headers
> > of these columns. Also, kmail does not honor font configurations
> > for the message list panel anymore. The configuration screen is
> > there, but has no effect at all.
> > Worst than all this is the fact that kmail does not group messages
> > in threads anymore. And the option to set this up is gone from the
> > Folder menu. I hope this is well hidden somewhere else, but I
> > couldn't find it... Does any one know how to setup kmail to thread
> > messages now? Really, a mail client that does not thread
> > discussions is of no use for me.
> >
> > Is there a way to go back to the previous version of KMail??
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marcelo
>
> Try quiting kmail, backing up ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and then once
> you have a backup delete the original folder. Start kmail. See if
> that helps.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried it, but did not help...
However, at least the threading problem is solved, I found the =

configuration for that in the little buttons to the right of the look up =

field above the messages list. This was the worst problem for me, I can =

live with the rest for a while.

Thanks,

Marcelo

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