Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Edward Serink
Everyone, especially Milan...SUCCESS! There was a chap over on the Gentoo forums that was very wise in gentoo-fu that showed me a portage 'hack' on how to install gnome-control-centre WITHOUT having to switch my machine to systemd. This man was wise which is why I honour the gentoo forum.

Re: [Evolution] Non-subscribers - Was: Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 22:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 21:00 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The only way to do that is to restrict posting to list subscribers. > > No, other lists provide the feature I mentioned, for example [1]. > "If you would like to cancel this

[Evolution] PS: Non-subscribers - Was: Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 22:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 21:00 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The only way to do that is to restrict posting to list subscribers. > > No, other lists provide the feature I mentioned, for example [1]. > "If you would like to cancel this

[Evolution] Non-subscribers - Was: Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 21:00 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The only way to do that is to restrict posting to list subscribers. No, other lists provide the feature I mentioned, for example [1]. "If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL", otherwise it's held for

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 20:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: My apologies, I first sent from a wrong account. It would be nice > if Evo's list would use the mailman feature to chancel a post, > assumed > it was sent from the wrong account. Other lists use this mailman > feature. A user than can

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 25 May 2016 19:13:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:44:30 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> Recommending to switch to GNOME, to get rid of performance issues is >>> grotesque, since a lot of machines

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:44:30 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Recommending to switch to GNOME, to get rid of performance issues is >> grotesque, since a lot of machines can't run GNOME at all, because it >> does cause that serious

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Recommending to switch to GNOME, to get rid of performance issues is > grotesque, since a lot of machines can't run GNOME at all, because it > does cause that serious performance issues, since it requires a high > level of 3D acceleration.

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Edward Serink
Re the calendar...you were right, I am NOT using the gnone-online-accounts as the .config/goa-1 directory is empty. I have gnome-online-accounts installed but I need gnome-control-center to run it to configure it. But it gets more funI have to bring in half of the entire gnome tree just to do

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Serink
Hi Patrick: Using IMAP. I will check my junk setting and come back to you. Cheers John Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Patrick O'Callaghan Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2016 19:59 To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues On Wed,

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Serink
Milan! Lots of meat here, thank you for the effort‎. I will work through all of these and report back. It helps to know what is going on under the hood. This is why I love linux. Cheers, John Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Milan Crha Sent: Wednesday, 25 May

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 16:21 +0800, John Edward Serink wrote: > Rebuild with spamassissin excluded, That might be a clue, for several reasons: 1) You don't need to rebuild anything. SA can just be turned off. 2) You haven't said anything about how your accounts are set up (IMAP or POP?). This

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 16:21 +0800, John Edward Serink wrote: > Thank you for the tips. > Yes, I am using GOA. I edit the settings using seahorse. Hi, you normally do not need to use seahorse, neither there is any setting except of passwords, which you shouldn't edit there anyway. > As my

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It's plain wrong to recommend to switch from Xfce4 to GNOME, to get > rid of performance issues. GNOME has much higher requirements, than > Xfce4 does have. Pete did not recommend switching to Gnome for performance reasons. He recommended

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't spread FUD, your recommendation to switch from Xfce4 to GNOME, to get rid of performance issues is unworldly. I'm not pro Xfce4 and con GNOME3. Btw. the machines hardware isn't the only thing you need to take into account. Resources could be required for other tasks, than a desktop

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Pete Biggs
Sorry, I'm going to top post this. I have never had an issue with the performance of Gnome. I have never heard of a serious performance issue with Gnome other than with seriously underpowered machines.  I run Gnome under Fedora on a Core Duo laptop with 2Gb memory without too many problems. The

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Edward Serink
Hi Pete: Thank you for the tips. Yes, I am using GOA. I edit the settings using seahorse. As my account uses the Google two step verification process (they send you an sms on your hand phone to authenticate you in addition to your password) I had to create an app passwordwhich I did. This is

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, actually all GTK3 apps start with a black box, before the widgets are added. This is noticeable, but shouldn't take a second or more, but in a split second, there is a visible black box, even on systems that perform excellent. This doesn't happen with GTK2 or Qt or anything else. It'sd a well

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> What works: > Eamil. > What partially works: > Calander. I can see everything but when I try and create meeting in > the calendar, I get the following error: > Failed to open calendar 'Contacts : Birthdays & Anniversaries' > Contacts: > Doesn't work at all.  How did you create the account in

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Edward Serink
Ok, installed the Gnome themes on XFCE and chnaged to Adwaitawill let you know how I get on. Cheers, John On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 08:39 +0200, R. W. Reese wrote: > El 2016-05-25 07:59, John Edward Serink escribió: > > > > Update to this. > > It s can take 3 ~seconds before a scroll activates

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread R. W. Reese
El 2016-05-25 07:59, John Edward Serink escribió: Update to this. It s can take 3 ~seconds before a scroll activates and about 5 seconds for an email to appear when I click on it. Cheers, John On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 11:49 +0800, John Edward Serink wrote: Hello Everyone on the list: Our

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread John Edward Serink
Update to this. It s can take 3 ~seconds before a scroll activates and about 5 seconds for an email to appear when I click on it. Cheers, John On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 11:49 +0800, John Edward Serink wrote: > Hello Everyone on the list: > > Our comapny has just moved over to google gmail and have