On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 13:38:13 J. Roeleveld wrote: > 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"
I can't find anything wrong with those settings. Everything is set to British English. $ locale -a C en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 POSIX $ eselect locale list Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] en_GB [3] en_GB.iso88591 [4] en_GB.iso885915 [5] en_GB.utf8 * [6] POSIX [ ] (free form) > > 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 But this time, the single-click-to-open preference is still ignored. You see, the system is behaving inconsistently - even irrationally at times. --->8 > > * 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... As far as I can see, Kmail 5 isn't even in the tree yet. > 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) I've done that or similar many times over the last several weeks. I think I'm left with just one sensible option: to build a new system from scratch, complete with a new user account, not carrying anything but necessities over from the current system. -- Rgds Peter
