On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 11:56:50 AM Peter Humphrey 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.
Check your language/internationisation settings. The translations is from "kde-apps/kdepim-l10n" > 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. Hmm... not sure where this comes from > > Work the real problem, not an assumed one :-) > > Of course - when I can find it! I'm just trying to ensure that the system is > clean before I go tilting at windmills. Possibly, I'm just seeing the > immaturity of KDE-5. So be it, if so. Could be... > * I've seen references to KMail 5.0.3 already Out There, so I'm sticking > with it in the hope that 5.* will be more solid. I'm still using Kmail 4.x until Kmail 5 becomes unmasked... If you want a truly clean build: emerge -ae @system emerge -ae @world emerge -a --depclean (That's what I did last time I had too many strange issues) -- Joost
