2009/10/20 Alex Schuster <[email protected]>: > 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.
Sounds promising - I've had no Kmail 3.5 crashes that I can think of so it may be OK with 4 too. Thanks for sharing. -- Regards, Mick
