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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: requirements?
From:       Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date:       1999-11-28 12:19:52
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On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, dep wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> 
> |There is no need. Egcs 1.1.2 presents itself as version 2.91.something,
> |and this is the compiler I use.
> 
> i gave it a shot with egcs-1.1.2, and it (mostly) built fine. in a few places
> it barfed on the docs -- was i supposed to build and install i18n? -- and a
> couple of other things, chiefly kppp, blew up. koffice doesn't work here yet.
> otoh, i'm writing this in the greatly improved kmail.

Cool, I'm glad you liked the kmail changes, there are a lot more to come.

kmail is going through some fairly big changes at the moment. Some things are 
improved but other things have been broken. I'm hoping to get the following 
fixed by the crash release:

I do want to have a try at getting background downloading of pop mail working 
and better detection of old mail on server. I think Rik Hemsley is planning to 
upgrade the pop kioslave to using UIDLs that will help alot.

Many warnings in mimelib code when compiling (not a problem except it looks
ugly)

In KMFolder::create the access function fails quite often for no apparent
reason. This is a problem when a new kmail user starts kmail and it tries to
create the ~/Mail folder and during exit when kmail tries to automatically
compress folders.

KTablistBox scrolls the message list up half a screen at a time, QListView
doesn't do this, which is a shame. (Should be easy to fix, and it's damn 
annoying).

There was a "try harder to find icon" patch frome KDE 1.1.2 that I couldn't
transfer to the HEAD branch, kstddirs has changed a lot (or is it completely
new). Unfortunately showing of icons is completely broken at the moment, this
broke at the same time large changes were made to the html widget.

The html widget is going through big changes and this has broken things.
Including:
Setting default colors.
Selecting text.
I have to restart kmail for changes (font, font size) to take affect. I can't
even seem to change the colors in a document through the use of attributes
in the body element.

I allow customization of background, text, link and followed link colors.
In retrospect it would have been better to just allow customization of link
and followed link colors.

The Ctrl-J for applying filters isn't working but the menu item is.

You were able to change the status of a message via an unusual popup menu
that only appearing when you RMB clicked in the status message column this is
no longer functional.

The RMB in the composer is the default one rather the one KMail tries to
install is ignored.

The HTML widget outputs lots of debugging output which slows things down.

Spelling checking is broken as the spell checking library is broken.
 
Dragging files from konqueror and dropping them onto the kmail composer isn't 
creating an attachment as it should.

Once these are fixed up I'll list the new features and ask for some feedback.

There are a few bugs in the new qmultilineedit code.

BFN,
Don.

> 
> actually, i'm surprised and impressed at how good it is, even at this early
> stage. i really, really like it. the people here who are creating kde2 deserve
> congratulations, praise, and admiration. this thing is going to be absolutely
> tremendous!
> 
> if this were gnome, they'd release it . . . <g>
> 
> --
> dep__________________________________________________________________
>                 2000 is a number that breaks computers.
>                 01-01-01 is when the millennium begins.

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