On Tuesday 30 August 2016 22:51:47 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 15:30:51 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 13:38:13 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 11:56:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 12:06:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > You should elaborate more and be specific on what you mean by "The > > > > > reason is an intermittent series of apparently unrelated things > > > > > going > > > > > wrong." > > > > > > > > Here's one then: In KMail (yes, I know*) the folder list contains an > > > > item > > > > "trash" (ugh!), but when I come to empty it it's called "Wastebin" > > > > (much > > > > better) in the drop-down menu. > > > > > > Check your language/internationisation settings. > > > The translations is from "kde-apps/kdepim-l10n" > > > > I can't find anything wrong with those settings. Everything is set to > > British English. > > > > $ locale -a > > C > > en_GB > > en_GB.iso88591 > > en_GB.iso885915 > > en_GB.utf8 > > POSIX > > > > $ eselect locale list > > > > Available targets for the LANG variable: > > [1] C > > [2] en_GB > > [3] en_GB.iso88591 > > [4] en_GB.iso885915 > > [5] en_GB.utf8 * > > [6] POSIX > > [ ] (free form) > > This is all OK. > > > > > And another: if I move my user account away and create a new one, > > > > setting KDE plasma up from scratch (this is ~amd64), the > > > > system-settings > > > > panel has no icons and the single-click-to-open preference is > > > > ignored, > > > > even though it's the default and I already have it set anyway. Then, > > > > if > > > > I revert to the original home directory, which has followed events > > > > through the last six months, those faults disappear. > > > > > > Hmm... not sure where this comes from > > > > But this time, the single-click-to-open preference is still ignored. > > > > You see, the system is behaving inconsistently - even irrationally at > > times. > The latest Konqueror (stable) update to 4.14.20 fixed the one click > problem, as well as opening files within Konqueror itself, rather than > opening a separate dolphin window. Dolphin is still borked and behaves > /irrationally/. I hope the next update will fix that too.
Thanks to all who've helped. I've now just completed a rebuild from bare metal and everything seems fine at the moment. -- Rgds Peter
