kmail-mobile / N900 - first impressions

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010 12:11:33 schrieb Rolf Offermanns:
> - update README: kmail-mobile needs to be started with the
> kmail-mobile.sh script, not just "kmail-mobile".

True, or use the button.
Sometime I set the path and then start "akonadictl start" first.

> - I get many qml warnings, I guess this is OK for now?

I think so.

> - The "actions" slider is unintuitive. It looks like a slide-out button,
> but in fact, you have to pull and push it.

This is one of the core values of having a running instance, we want to get 
experience with it. I've also noticed this issue. Probably we have to make 
the slider also a button. I also believe we need to make it slide-inable by a 
button press of the left thumb.

> - Several times I got to a state in which I had to restart kmail-mobile
> because the UI did not respond anymore. The action slider was still open
> after I got back from the new account wizard and I was not able to close
> the action slider again.

There is a defect, sometime the slider do not fully open. 
You can pull them out a little bit more and then you can slide them in again.

> - I did not manage to setup an account yet. I tried really hard. :)
>    -> I tried gmx, web.de, googlemail
>    -> with and without the "autodetect server settings" setting enabled
>    -> The wizard makes it easy to do the wrong thing(s). Often there is
> something going on asynchronously (checking server settings), but you
> don't "see it" and the buttons are still enabled so I can push "Next" or
> "Finished" while something else is still in progress in the background.
>
>    -> The new account wizard reported a successfull account creation
> multiple times during my tests, but none of the accounts show up in the
> list (I assume a new account will appear below the "Local folders" entry?).

Folders will show up, when akonadi has them as far as I've understood.
It helps me to use akonadiconsole (do not forget setting the right path) 
and check the configuration. I could configure a Kolab Server account with 
IMAPS and SMTPS using the account wizard and later correcting some settings 
with akonadiconsole.

>    -> After several tries I now get a "agent creation timeout" every
> time I try. I checked the process list and I see about a dozend
> akonadi_imap|pop3_resource processes. It looks like there is one for
> every try I did. I already did "akonadictl stop" and waited for every
> process to end, but after I started kmail-mobile again they all came back.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get to a clean state again?

First: Make sure no process is running anymore.
kdepim-shutdown and then kdeinit4_shutdown should do the trick or reboot.

Then you could remove the complete configuration.
Remove .kde, .local/share/akonadi, .config/akonadi

> I would also like to know which kind of feedback/tests you are most
> interested in, so I can focus my attention to these topics.

We will ask in a more systematic way I think. For now, we are getting the core 
functions to work and configure. You could try to find a public wiki place 
and help to update it, because there are meanwhile a lot of small little 
hints that all our N900 users have, that are easily forgotten, when writting 
a readme.

Best,
Bernhard


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