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

Em Seg 09 Fev 2009, Anne Wilson escreveu:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009 06:31:20 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.
>
> I've only seen this problem once, and can't reproduce it, so I don't
> know what caused your problem.
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't use these, so don't know, but I'll see if I can find any way
> to deal with that problem.
>
> > 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.
>
> I did have to fiddle around a bit to find how to get every last bit
> of KDE text to the size I wanted, but it's working correctly now.  As
> far as I can remember, the problem is that some of the sections use
> settings from Configure KMail, and some things use font settings from
> SystemSettings >Appearance. I've been away a couple of days, and I'm
> not yet tuned in, but if you don't find it I'll try to help you.
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes, that threw me at first :-)  Near the filter panel you have a set
> of new icons.  The second from the left looks a bit like a newspaper
> page - that's the Aggregation icon.  Set it to Activity by Date,
> Threaded.  Take a look, while you're there, on the additional options
> under Configure, particularly the tab Groups, Threads and Sorting

Thanks for you help, Anne. I've reported the two first issues in KDE's 
bugzilla. The third one was already reported, I'm monitoring the bug. 
This last, about threading, wasn't a bug at all, as you said :)
It was a relief to find out kmail still can thread correctly! :)

Thanks,

Marcelo

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