Upgrade woes

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 25 August 2017 23:11:56 BST I allegedly wrote:
> 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?

Now, would someone like to tell me where that e-mail came from? I don't see 
how I can have written it - unless KMail has been sending messages without 
my knowledge again.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.