KDE-3.3.2: small puzzles [LONG]

[Derick Centeno]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:05, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> Hi Derick,
> 
> Thanks for responding. BTW, I am in Carlisle, MA  which is north west of
> Boston.
> 
> OK... Let me understand.  
> 
> Using evolution-1.4.6 AND the KDE desktop:
> * create an outgoing email message
> * add an attachment of any sort
>    * attachment panel appears at the bottom of the outgoing message
>       * attachment is seen as an icon in this panel.

The paper clip icon appears (alongside the envelope icon in those emails
which have attachments) when other email documents that have been
received or sent are listed.

Regarding the icon appearing in the attachment panel, THAT icon appears
as a generic document icon a number below it details how large a file it
is.  That is, the icon appears a bit smaller than it would appear than
an icon appearing say in a listing after you click upon Home icon of the
KDE desktop.

> That's what it's supposed to do.
> 
> On my system, when running the KDE desktop:
> * create an outgoing email message
> * add an attachment of any sort
>    * attachment panel appears at the bottom of the outgoing message
>       * attachment icon is *NOT* seen, but the attachment is there.
> 
> When I run the GNOME desktop all is well.

I prefer Gnome myself.  KDE is beautiful but my sound card refuses to
cooperate with KDE when it is asking the card to wake up.  So no theme
music.  I find heightened and disappointed expectation worse than no
expectation at all. Thus Gnome.  It works.  No background
orchestrations, but it works.

Creating a new user for yourself and working from that sounds like a
good plan.  I've done it myself.  One caveat though, evolution will
start from scratch, you'll have to set settings and everything else
about it as though it was your first time.  Suggestion: Before you do
this, while you are still in your old user environment, print out your
contacts -- you'll have to enter them in manually in the new user
identity, and keep also important emails for hardcopy records.  Although
evolution has an import function it is expecting to import data from the
current active user directory.  For example, it is expecting to import
documents from say Balsa or Kmail or whatever; it is not expecting you
to ask it to import components of itself within the evolution folder of
your old user identity.  

I'm sure that there is a way to make such a transfer neater, but I
wasn't patient enough to learn it.

Best wishes....