Re: windows visual preferences messed up after log-in
On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 5:20:57 PM CET Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021, 16:46:10 CET schrieb inkbottle:
> > Hi all,
>
> ++
>
> > Since an odd fortnight to a month, many default visual parameters are
> > weird. Let me be more specific:
> >
> > Every times I open Kmail, the "list" part of the main window, "subject",
> > "senders", "date", are crammed to the left. Just to the point you can't
> > read anything meaningful. For instance all subjects are restricted to
> > "Re:...".
> >
> > But the main point is, mouse-sliding the column separators, works only
> > until you close the window: every time it is closed and then opened back
> > again, the modifications I made to the column width are lost, and
> > everything is again in its unreadable configuration.
> >
> > Errata: I've just check: it's every times you log-out log-in again.
>
> Same here, on an oldish version of Kmail (5.9.3 as packaged on
> Debian/Buster). Seeing the effect for some time longer, I guess. Not fully
> clear as of when, exactly.
>
> If you want to double your trouble, try switching between starting Kmail as
> Kmail and Kmail within Kontact. Seems to add an extra layer of
> settings-forgetfulness.
>
> Might be an issue with the settings store, since in Buster, there has not
> been an upgrade to KMail, but the odd behaviour was not apparent from the
> beginning, at least not that I remember.
>
> I have not checked with current KMail in Sid, which is far more recent
> and also sits on top of a far more recent Frameworks. Might not make much
> sense to report a bug against Buster now.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that I'm using sid, and since my issues are like
a month old, they are very likely unrelated.
>
> > [...]
>
> (Bye)²,
>
> another Chris
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