KMail 5.7.3 news and question

[Jerome Yuzyk]

[KMail 5.73 on Fedora 28 updated this morning]

Perhaps a victory for some like me, but this morning my older Fedora 28 KMail
choked on the usual Akonadi stuff, and then locked up KDE/X/something and that
prompted me to do the kernel and kf5 updates I've had pending and after
rebooting and starting KMail 5.7.3 my adjustments to the Name/Unread/Total/
Size folder columns seem to have held!

Still, is there a way to go back to highlighting the names of folders with new
messages and showing the number like it was before? That columnar thing is
pretty useless to me, and the way my screen is laid out I can't see that
column and the folder name isn't bold anymore so I have to move something out
of the way to see which folder(s) have new messages.

Maybe I still don't have something set right.


Also, because of nVidia video that Nouveau/QT5 didn't get along with I've been
using LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 kmail & from a Konsole window to start KMail. I
read somewhere that QT-WebKit (? or something) was going to blacklist Nouveau
and not rely on it for accelerated GPU. Has that been done? Can I just run
'kmail' now?

[René J.V. Bertin]

Post by Jerome Yuzyk
using LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 kmail & from a Konsole window to start KMail. I
read somewhere that QT-WebKit (? or something) was going to blacklist Nouveau
and not rely on it for accelerated GPU. Has that been done? Can I just run
'kmail' now?

The official QtWebKit isn't being maintained, and AFAIK the rebooted 5.212 version uses mostly regular Qt for rendering but all that is moot because KMail hasn't used WebKit for quite a while now. It uses QtWebEngine instead (= it runs a private copy of Chromium's engine just to render HTML mail...), but maybe that's what you meant?

[Ingo Klöcker]

Post by Jerome Yuzyk
[KMail 5.73 on Fedora 28 updated this morning]
Perhaps a victory for some like me, but this morning my older Fedora 28
KMail choked on the usual Akonadi stuff, and then locked up KDE/X/something
and that prompted me to do the kernel and kf5 updates I've had pending and
after rebooting and starting KMail 5.7.3 my adjustments to the
Name/Unread/Total/ Size folder columns seem to have held!
Still, is there a way to go back to highlighting the names of folders with
new messages and showing the number like it was before? That columnar thing
is pretty useless to me, and the way my screen is laid out I can't see that
column and the folder name isn't bold anymore so I have to move something
out of the way to see which folder(s) have new messages.
Maybe I still don't have something set right.

Appears so, because here the names of folders with unread messages are
highlighted (bold) and the number of unread messages is shown directly after
the name.

Did you try hiding the Unread/Total/ Size columns (right click on the column
header)? This should at least give you the numbers next to the folder names.


Regards,
Ingo

[Jerome Yuzyk]

Post by Ingo Klöcker
Did you try hiding the Unread/Total/ Size columns (right click on the column
header)? This should at least give you the numbers next to the folder names.

Thank you, that did it!

The folder pane still thinks there are extra columns to the right of Name and
shows a horizontal scrollbar so that dynamic is still slightly broken.

[Ingo Klöcker]

Post by Jerome Yuzyk

Post by Ingo Klöcker
Did you try hiding the Unread/Total/ Size columns (right click on the
column header)? This should at least give you the numbers next to the
folder names.

Thank you, that did it!
The folder pane still thinks there are extra columns to the right of Name
and shows a horizontal scrollbar so that dynamic is still slightly broken.

You can probably get rid of the scrollbar by scrolling all the way to the
right and then grabbing and dragging the right border of the Name column to
the left until the scrollbar vanishes.


Regards,
Ingo

[Jerome Yuzyk]

Post by Ingo Klöcker

Post by Jerome Yuzyk

Post by Ingo Klöcker
Did you try hiding the Unread/Total/ Size columns (right click on the
column header)? This should at least give you the numbers next to the
folder names.

Thank you, that did it!
The folder pane still thinks there are extra columns to the right of Name
and shows a horizontal scrollbar so that dynamic is still slightly broken.

You can probably get rid of the scrollbar by scrolling all the way to the
right and then grabbing and dragging the right border of the Name column to
the left until the scrollbar vanishes.

There is a column to the right of it that's giving the extra width causing the
scrollbar and I can't get rid of it.