On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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... >
Ha, so it's true then: using my blackberry as a PDA (sync'd to google calendar) and not bothering with that stuff on my computer anymore may indeed have saved lives. I suspected as much. :) Sorry, not to make light of your predicament. I do sympathize. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
