On Monday 19 February 2018 15:52:37 m...@neidorff.com wrote: > On Monday, February 19, 2018 3:16:20 PM EST deloptes wrote: > > Brad Rogers wrote: > > > So far, my experience with KDE/QT5 has been good; Things that > > > were, in the past, broken, now work again. I've not found > > > anything wrong at all. > > > > yes a friend installed it and showed it to me, so the difference was > > there. I also looked at Qt5 and the Sailfish OS project - it is > > impressive. > > > > > That said, I don't now, nor have I ever, used kmail, so can't > > > comment about the state of play there. > > > > but this friend also does not user kmail and I am a heavy kmail > > user. And even kmail is not the problem but the attitude of the KDE > > team. > > I am a long time kmail user. I have noticed significant improvment in > stability and the filtering of incoming mail. I use the filtering > extensively. Before the last release, at the beginning of a KDE > session, filtering was OK, but it slowed down with use. In the latest > version, it is extremely fast, and it doesn't get slower with use. > The only "bug" I have found in this version of kmail (5.5.2) is that > an occasional "ghost" message will be in a folder and can't be > removed. I store emails locally via IMAP--one message per file--and > except for the ghosts, I am extremely pleased. I currently have over > 126,000 messages stored and about 8 "ghost" messages. I searched > through the individual files that contain the e-mails and I can't find > files for the ghost messages. > > If the attitude of the KDE folks is the problem, please remember that > they are not full time KDE programmers and customer service is > probably not their strong suit. > > I don't know if you consider this a valid comparison or not, but: > In October 2017 (as I recall), my bank (which shall remain nameless) > announced that there would be a new version of the on-line access > software coming out on January 1st. Then, around January 10th they > announced that the upgrade had some unresolved issues, and would not > be rolled out until February 1st. February 1st arrived and passed. > The new software was put in place on the 12th. Since then, I have > been unable to login to my account. No help on the screen. When I > called last week, they said that they were ware of the problem and > were working very hard to resolve it. No apology. They can tell me > my balance over the phone, but that is about it. IMO, this is absurd. > > Mark
That would result in my 5 digit balance being moved. However a phone call generally resolves the problem, but the threat is there, and they know it. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>