i tweak the toolbar in kmail to contain a bunch of buttons i like to use however, everytime i update the friggin thing, my changes are lost, and the default toolbar is given to me
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Does this happen with every minor update or only with major updates? Are you using stock KDE or some wm with KDE apps? Please make a backup of kmail.rc, update to 3.5.2 and attach the diff.
i dont use KDE, just kmail i dont use any sort of funky 3rd party themes/widgets/whatever ... my theme is simply the default Plastik
(In reply to comment #3) > Does this happen with every minor update or only with major updates? Are you > using stock KDE or some wm with KDE apps? Please make a backup of kmail.rc, > update to 3.5.2 and attach the diff. > It also happens to me -- every time kmail is updated by emerge. I use kmail under FVWM because I happen to like the application, but I dislike KDE. There is no kmail.rc on this box, but there is ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc and a ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/kmmainwin.rc -- the latter seems to store the toolbar settings. Simply re-installing kdepim does not mess with these settings; to reproduce the bug I'd need to revert to kde-3.5.2 then re-install 3.5.2-r2. Next time I get to upgrade kmail, I will make diffs.
just went from 3.5.5 to 3.5.6 and it nuked my toolbar again
(In reply to comment #6) > just went from 3.5.5 to 3.5.6 and it nuked my toolbar again And 3.5.7 will do it again. It's kmail itself that does it: .kde/share/apps/kmail/kmmainwin.rc stores your modified toolbar. It has a version element, though: <kpartgui version="92" name="kmmainwin" > (Example taken from 3.5.6.) Now, kmail-3.5.7 has version 94. Thus, when you first start kmail-3.5.7 it will see your "old" kmmainwin.rc, copy it to kmmainwin.rc.backup and start with the defaults. What you can do is copy your kmmainwin.rc.backup back to kmmainwin.rc, change the version from 92 to 94 and you'll have your customised toolbar back. I know this is not a satisfying solution but upstream is aware of it and they think it's ok the way they do it - merging is just too complicated... :-> There are quite a few bugs on this on bugs.kde.org but http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103057 seems to be the primary bug for it and you should probably voice your "satisfaction" (which I can totally understand) there, too. As this is clearly an upstream issue, I'm resolving this as such and apologise for the inconvenience.
np, thanks for the upstream url
