On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:16:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > A while ago I eventually got my contacts back. I forget the actual > cause now, but I strongly suspect it involved tinkering with mysql, > and this may have broken in turn my calendar. > > I'm going to do one last test before consigning kdepim to the > trashbin: migrate everything to a new user and start with a default > config. If it works, I can migrate the data at my leisure.
I swear, I am about to go postal and shoot someone. This issue with the calendar not being visible is fixed. Wanna know what it was? Calendar -> Settings -> Sidebar lists 4 things Show Date Navigator Show To-do View Show Item Viewer Show Calendar Manager That's weird, I see 4 ticks and 2 panes in the left sidebar. Let me hover for just a second.... Oh look, I can drag this divider bar. And fuck me sideways with a clue by 9 if I now don't see three calendar resources (the same three I set up in System Settings) and none of them have a tick. Tick all three. Oh but fuck me sideways again there's all my calendar items. Right click -> Add and I can make new ones. Double click an entry I can edit it. This has been a huge issue for 4 months since the first semi-usable kdepim betas were out. The default display after migration to kmail2 was to collapse the Manager and To-Do panes to 0 pixels as The To-Do is positioned somewhere else in the kmail1 window layout and the Manager pane does not exist. Are there any visible clues in the divider to indicate the pane is collapsed to 0 pixels? No of course not! Don't be silly now!! Offer visible clues to the users? Surely you jest!!! Nonononono, we won't colour a collapsed divider differently, WE WILL TAKE IT AWAY ENTIRELY LEAVING JUST THE REGULAR PANES THAT ARE LEFT AND DELETE ALL CLUES THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THERE AND HIDDEN. But we will put a pretty pulsating glowing blue border around remaining panes for your enjoyment and delight when you hover over them? And did I mention that there is zero clues whatsoever in the settings dialog that these panes even exist at all? First page last tab is "Calendars" (it duplicates SystemSettings). Something that would be real nice right there is a column for Enabled/Disabled. Fancy that, give the user an alternate way to see stuff that makes the thing cease to work at all. Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena major clusterfuck for me. And where I come from, that kind of monumental cock-up in a QA'ed release gets you fired. Or at least busted down to maintenance coder. Grrrrrrr... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
