On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 11:56:50 I wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 12:06:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You should elaborate more and be specific on what you mean by "The > > reason is an intermittent series of apparently unrelated things going > > wrong." > > Here's one then: In KMail (yes, I know) the folder list contains an item > "trash" (ugh!), but when I come to empty it it's called "Wastebin" (much > better) in the drop-down menu. > > And another: if I move my user account away and create a new one, setting > KDE plasma up from scratch (this is ~amd64), the system-settings panel has > no icons and the single-click-to-open preference is ignored, even though > it's the default and I already have it set anyway. Then, if I revert to > the original home directory, which has followed events through the last > six months, those faults disappear.
One more: I've just emerged sci-misc/boinc, and portage overwrote /etc/conf.d/boinc without asking for permission. I have /usr/share/applications/boincmgr-boinc.desktop in CONFIG_PROTECT; that was overwritten too. -- Rgds Peter
