Upgrade woes

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 25 August 2017 21:40:06 BST Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Friday, August 25, 2017 11:23:30 AM CEST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I'm starting a new thread rather than hijacking the Ctrl-N one. This is
> > a
> > Gentoo stable box on which KMail has recently become available at
> > version
> > 5.5.3.
> > 
> > I've just upgraded and I'm not very happy. This is my second attempt at
> > posting; the first time, while I was writing I went to check which
> > dictionary was in use for spell checking - of course, it was American
> > "English", in spite of the system-wide setting of UK. When I closed that
> > dialogue my new mail had vanished. > That needs a bug report.
> 
> I agree, that sounds like a bug - messages should not vanish :)
> 
> Anyhow, in Settings -> Spellchecker try disabling automatic detection of
> language and just choose en_GB. I don't know how the autodetection works,
> but maybe it just defaults to en_US if it sees English.
> 
> > I still have a greyed-out Import menu item, so I'll never be able to
> > recover mails from KMail's own archives. That also looks like a bug to
> > me.
> I thought I already replied to this, but now I realized I can't see the
> email anywhere, so maybe I did not: check if you have
> pim-settings-exporter installed, that's what exports (and imports) KDE
> PIM settings.
> 
> > Two fine-tuning aspects are important to me but have gone missing.
> > First, I can't choose the font of the folder list, so it wastes space
> > and now needs a vertical scroll bar.
> 
> Was that ever even customizable?
> 
> > Second, I also can't choose the font of unread
> > messages in the message list, which insists on being bigger than the
> > read
> > ones, in spite of my setting classic standard mailing list aggregation.
> 
> Message list font options have been removed and KMail follows your
> system-wide font settings - you can only choose color now. This wasn't a
> young hotshot removing features just for the sake of removing features,
> but being able to pre-calculate sizes of all the message list entries
> lead to massive speed up when opening folders - previously we had to
> calculate dimensions for each entry individually which is very expensive.
> 
> This is a trade-off between speed and customizability. The reason why
> KMail even had this possibility for customization dates back into early
> KDE 2 times, when there was no KDE-wide font settings and so each
> application had its own. We agreed that it makes more sense to follow
> system-wide default, since the gain is much huge speedup and less code
> for us to maintain ;-)
> 
> > Moreover, all my layout and config options had got lost and I had to set
> > them up again.
> 
> Sorry to hear that, all your configuration should've been migrated,
> Laurent put a lot of efforts into ensuring that. I can't tell why that
> did not work for you :(
> 
> > That's when I found the restrictions that have been imposed
> > on font selection.
> > 
> > Does my experience match anyone else's here?


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Regards,
Peter.