Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:16:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> A while ago I eventually got my contacts back. I forget the actual 
> cause now, but I strongly suspect it involved tinkering with mysql, 
> and this may have broken in turn my calendar.
> 
> I'm going to do one last test before consigning kdepim to the 
> trashbin: migrate everything to a new user and start with a default 
> config. If it works, I can migrate the data at my leisure.

I swear, I am about to go postal and shoot someone. This issue with 
the calendar not being visible is fixed.

Wanna know what it was?

Calendar -> Settings -> Sidebar lists 4 things

Show Date Navigator
Show To-do View
Show Item Viewer
Show Calendar Manager

That's weird, I see 4 ticks and 2 panes in the left sidebar. Let me 
hover for just a second.... Oh look, I can drag this divider bar. And 
fuck me sideways with a clue by 9 if I now don't see three calendar 
resources (the same three I set up in System Settings) and none of 
them have a tick. Tick all three. Oh but fuck me sideways again 
there's all my calendar items. Right click -> Add and I can make new 
ones. Double click an entry I can edit it.

This has been a huge issue for 4 months since the first semi-usable 
kdepim betas were out. The default display after migration to kmail2 
was to collapse the Manager and To-Do panes to 0 pixels as The To-Do 
is positioned somewhere else in the kmail1 window layout and the 
Manager pane does not exist.

Are there any visible clues in the divider to indicate the pane is 
collapsed to 0 pixels? No of course not! Don't be silly now!! Offer 
visible clues to the users? Surely you jest!!! Nonononono, we won't 
colour a collapsed divider differently, WE WILL TAKE IT AWAY ENTIRELY 
LEAVING JUST THE REGULAR PANES THAT ARE LEFT AND DELETE ALL CLUES 
THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THERE AND HIDDEN. But we will put a pretty 
pulsating glowing blue border around remaining panes for your 
enjoyment and delight when you hover over them?

And did I mention that there is zero clues whatsoever in the settings 
dialog that these panes even exist at all? First page last tab is 
"Calendars" (it duplicates SystemSettings). Something that would be 
real nice right there is a column for Enabled/Disabled. Fancy that, 
give the user an alternate way to see stuff that makes the thing cease 
to work at all.

Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena  major clusterfuck for 
me. And where I come from, that kind of monumental cock-up in a QA'ed 
release gets you fired. Or at least busted down to maintenance coder. 
Grrrrrrr...



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