KDE 4.8.1 doing strange things with some applications

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2012-03-23, dE . wrote:
> On 03/21/12 03:56, Duncan wrote:
> > Alex Schuster posted on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:57:38 +0100 as excerpted:
> >> pete writes:
> >>> I am having a few strange interactions here with KDE4.8.1  i use claws
> >>> mail for the simple reason Kmail has caused me too much hassle recently
> >>> 
> >>>   ,
> >> 
> >> Me too, for daily use. For encrypted mails or local folders I still use
> >> KMail. Or when Claws crashes after sending a mail like now.
> > 
> > Claws-mail all the way, here.  I dumped that akonadi abomination and
> > along with it (Gentoo) USE=semantic-desktop entirely, like the scourge it
> > turned out to be to my system!
> > 
> >>>   all was well untill the update to KDE 4.8.1 then every time
> >>> 
> >>> i send a mail it closes claws down if i open a compose window then
> >>> think dont bother and close the window the entire claws vanishes Claws
> >>> mail is version 3.8.0 on Arch Linux as in sig block below
> >> 
> >> Exactly the same happens here on Gentoo Linux since this morning. I am
> >> running 4.8.1 since two weeks ago, but there was an update to 4.8.1-r1
> >> three days ago, and I did not log out of KDE since today. But there was
> >> also an update to Xorg yesterday, from 1.11.4 to 1.12.0.
> > 
> > Absolutely no such issues, here (also on Gentoo, ~amd64/no-multilib FWIW,
> > with the kde, x11 and mozilla overlays).  I too have the xorg-server
> > 1.12.0 update, kde 4.8.1, etc.  One big difference, however, would be
> > that I've disabled semantic-desktop entirely, and don't have kdepim or
> > akonadi or any of that stuff on the system.
> 
> So all this Akonadi stuff comes via [semantic-desktop]?

Unlikely, the technoligies themselves are unrelated and Gentoo usually doesn't 
add artifical dependenices (AFAIK).

Some KDEPIM applications are users of both though, so they might look related. 
But I would be surprised if they were on their package level.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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