Several problems with KMail in KDE 4.2

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:49:23 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> On Qui 12 Fev 2009, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 19:42:02 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > > People,
> > >
> > > Since I've upgrade do KDE 4.2 from updates-testing, KMail is
> > > presenting several issues which are making it real hard for me to
> > > use it. The message list panel doesn't remember which columns is
> > > should show nor their order. Every time I close Kontact and reopen
> > > it, all 17 available columns are displayed in some default order.
> > > It's no good to hide the ones I do not want and reorder the ones I
> > > want, because the next time I close and reopen Kontact all of them
> > > are shown in their default order again.
> > > Today I tried to open KMail stand alone (without Kontact) to see if
> > > it would behave differently. In stand alone mode it remember which
> > > columns I had selected when it is opened, but not their order nor
> > > their width. And now I can't open KMail embedded in Kontact
> > > anymore. When I open Kontact, it opens KMail in a separate Window.
> > > If I close it and select another application in Kontact and then
> > > get back to mail, it opens KMail in a separate window again.
> > > Sometimes, when I try to resize the Subject Column, it will just be
> > > pushed to the left or to the right with the same width, resizing
> > > the column right before it instead.
> > > The font setup to the message list panel have no effect at all. The
> > > configuration screen is there, but the font is not changed, nor its
> > > size, color or other attributes.
> > > When a thread is deleted with CTRL+DEL, some random message that
> > > was after it is selected, instead of the one right after the
> > > deleted thread. There are also other minor problems, but I've
> > > reported the bugs and can live with them until they're fixed. The
> > > ones described above, however, are disturbing me very much.
> > > Is there any workaround for any of them while they're not fixed? Is
> > > there some change I can make in configuration files, or something?
> >
> > Try shutting down kontact / kmail
> >
> > then rename
> >
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
>
> I tried that, and also renaming ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc, but it
> didn't get any better. The problem of kmail not opening embedded in
> Kontact, however, has gone away.
> I also noticed that the problem of all the possible columns always being
> displayed in message list panel every time kmail is opened happens when
> kmail is embedded in kontact and kontact is configured to display
> another application on start up. I kmail is opened stand alone or
> kontact is configured to show kmail on start up, it remembers the
> columns that were displayed when it was closed (and their width too, but
> not their order).
>

OK... well several problems got worked around. The rest... well the rest of it 
should be bug reported over at kde. It would be a good idea to mention that 
you've reported the bug at bugzilla also.

Eli


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