KDE-3.3.2: small puzzles [LONG]

[Derick Centeno]

I forgot to mention that one could do the following:

yum remove evolution
then reboot.
When you are back up, then do
yum install evolution.
To make sure everything is ok, reboot and now when you are back up then
enter your new settings, etc.

Best wishes...

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 14:31, Derick Centeno wrote:
> 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....
> 
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