Michael Mol wrote: > On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:54:48 PM Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Anyone? After upgrading a second machine to KDE/Plasma 5, I have the same >> behavior there. All KDE-4-based apps fail to interact with the file >> system. Using KMail I can no longer add any attachment to an email nor >> save an existing attachment to disk. > > I'm running KMail (Gentoo doesn't have the KDE5 version in tree yet, so > KDE4), and I send file attachments all the time. So I can say it's at > least not *intrinsically* broken...
As already said, it is not KMail, it affects any KDE4-based app ... and there are still a lot of them. > Much of KDE4 and KDE5 wind up installed side by side, FWIW. I'd suggest > cycling through emerge @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild, depclean, and > see if that shakes something loose. My dependency tree is fine. > The KDE4->KDE5 transition was generally a royal PITA for me, too, though I > can't remember what all broke... I did it in the last 4 weeks on 3 machines. Two have this problem, the third does not. However, it has to be something in the local configuration. If I log into another (unused) account in this machine, I don't have this problem :-/ Cheers, Jörg
