On Sunday 01 February 2009 02:20:18 G T Smith wrote:
AFAIK There is no reason that KMail should not run on a desktop other than KDE provided the right libraries are in place but (and it is a very big but) this is not something I have ever tried out.
I have, and it works fine. One of my machines here has started locking up at random times. It's on 11.1 x64 with KDE 4.2. At first, I only noticed it when I was viewing a video. Everything would stop for a while (mouse and keyboard included), then mysteriously restart. Eventually, though, the lockups started lasting long enough that I had to shut down the machine to get it going again. In order to watch the rest of the videos in that series (some MotoGP races I'd missed last year), I tried a Gnome session, and everything just worked fine. While in Gnome (no idea what version), I launched KMail, and had no problems with it at all. Same with Firefox. It knew about all my add-ons and recorded Deja-click macros. I'm just going to leave that machine running Gnome until I have the time and patience to figure out what appears to be a KDE-based problem. My apps are all there and working fine. And, truth be told, Gnome isn't bad at all. For some reason -- maybe because it seemed more familiar -- I've used KDE for a long time, but once I'd figured out a few basic differences in the way they work, I found that I can do just as well with Gnome as I can with KDE. The applications I use don't seem to care a bit, so it makes sense to use what works better. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org