Mick writes:
> 2009/10/20 Alex Schuster <[email protected]>:
> I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror
> (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop
> overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and
> jump straight into KDE4 when I buy a new laptop within a month or so.
>
> How is Kmail/Konqueror behaving on KDE4?
Kmail is running fine. There are some problems, but there also were with
3.5, it crashed quite often, sometimes several times a day. With version 4,
I had a single crash only.
My bug list for kontact/kmail:
- I can have multiple mail folders opened at once, which is nice, but new
mails do not appear then. They show up in the folder tree, but so display
them, I have to change into another folder and than back.
- While fetching new mail, I cannot open a new mail folder.
- New folders (created on the IMAP mail server) are not shown automatically.
- I can search for messages, but cannot open the ones I found.
- Saved attachments were empty, but I cannot reproduce that now, it's
probably fixed.
- Sometimes when logging in, kontact complains it is already running and
asks whether it should really be started. If I say yes, it crashes, if I say
no, it does not start. No problem when starting manually the nest time.
Konqueror is great. New features:
- It allows opening of recently closed objects.
- When it dies, at next start a dialog asks whether the last session should
be restored. The restored session also has all the history, so I can use the
back button.
Konqueror bugs:
- I always have garbage in the status line, showing parts of other opened
tabs.
- Sometimes, a tab has scrolling problems. That is, I scroll down a little,
but only the very top ob the page is updated. If I scroll fast, more is
updated, if I scroll a whole page down, the display is okay. Workaround is
to open the same page in a new tab.
- When saving images by drag'nDrop into a dolphin folder I am always being
asked whether to copy, move or to crate a shortcut, even if I press the Ctrl
key.
- For a few times, the mouse vanished when inside konqueror. Did not happen
since I use 4.3.
- With KDE < 4.3, the bookmark editor crashes when moving a second entry to
another location.
- Also with KDE < 4.3, mouse gestures in konqueror did not work at all, but
this is fixed.
- Oh, and also the fish:// protocol is working again!
So, these are minor problems only, both kmail and konqueror run better than
in KDE 3.5, at least for me. But I do not use konqueror as file manager any
more, I am trying out dolphin.
Wonko
