Richard, On Thursday 19 August 2004 14:34, C. Richard Matson wrote:
On Thursday 19 August 2004 9:32 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
...
Now, I did this same thing with KDE 3.2.3 and am happy I did. Yet it always fills me with trepidation when I press that "Accept" button... Will it be all the great new stuff and few or no problems, or am I about to experience a world of hurt?
Me too. So what are you waiting for? If it crashes just try again:-}
Ah. He thinks he's funny... So I did. I leaped with nary a glance at what's below! There were no incidents during the installation. For "good measure" (a.k.a. superstition) I rebooted. When I logged in and launched KMail, I was disturbed to see the folder display empty, even though I heard the sounds that signified mail (and implied that my filters were OK). The tray icon for KMail including the count of unread messages was also present and indicated new mail had arrived. However, no command that involved folders or their contents would work (e.g., CTRL-+ would not show me the first unread message in the next folder with unread messages). I quit and re-launched ... The same. So then I decided to poke around in the KMail configuration files. Nothing jumped out so I went over to KNode to see if anybody reported any similar symptom there, but there was nothing I could see. Then I launched KMail again (Why? Why not!). Well, as they say, "the third time's the charm." Now things are apparently fine. Other than the KMail scare, so far everything is basically OK. I'm noticing some changes in the iconography. KNode has a quick search bar (just as KMail 1.7 does, now), which is a very nice addition. I've noticed that in KNode (and I think KMail, too), toolbar modifications have been discarded and default toolbars restored. I am seeing the desktop grid issue, but I'll fix that up. The order of taskbar tabs seems to have changed, but perhaps that's an option I can change. It's arbitrary, but I come to expect certain things in certain places, since I have fixed virtual desktops for certain applications that I have running at all times or nearly all times. (Don't tell anyone, but I'm really glad to have styled text generation for outgoing messages. Don't worry, I won't attempt to send anything but plain text mail here... But personally, I occasionally find font variations and colors to be helpful for communicating in writing.)
-- C. Richard Matson
"So far, so good." "Onward and upward." yada, etc., so forth. Randall Schulz