Bug 76054 – kmail preview pane intermittently inoperative

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Smith 2004-12-29 11:35:03 UTC]

After upgrading to KDE 3.3.2 and Kmail 1.7.2 (via the kdepim ebuild) the Kmail preview pane is inoperative about 65% of the time in a random fashion.

According to the KDE developers the bug (88511) has been fixed (see the URI posted above) and the patch should be included in an updated kmail/kdepim ebuild.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run kmail
2.click on message headers
3.

Actual Results:  
randomly the message body does not appear in the preview pane

Expected Results:  
message body should always appear in the preview pane

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-12-29 11:43:38 UTC]

The kde bug report doesn't really make it clear "what" was fixed.  

Can you whip up a patch?

[Comment 2 Chris Smith 2004-12-29 11:59:06 UTC]

I agree that it isn't clear and there's no link to a patch in the bug report.

Someone must know something, the Debian group appears to have it resolved:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281705

Whipping up a patch is outside my limited realm of expertise.

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-12-29 12:16:19 UTC]

Created attachment 47145 [details, diff]
Debian's fix

Proposed patch - need some feedback on it, as I don't have this bug locallyy.

[Comment 4 Chris Smith 2004-12-29 15:01:27 UTC]

Initial indications are that the patch solves the problem.

[Comment 5 Chris Smith 2004-12-30 08:25:17 UTC]

Created attachment 47213 [details, diff]
edited Debian patch

[Comment 6 Chris Smith 2004-12-30 08:27:15 UTC]

Created attachment 47214 [details]
proposed ebuild change to apply patch

This ebuild applies the edited Debian patch to resolve the imap preview in
kmail.

[Comment 7 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-01-02 06:49:15 UTC]

*** Bug 76400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-01-13 15:53:23 UTC]

*** Bug 77903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Matthieu Sozeau (RETIRED) 2005-04-20 05:17:20 UTC]

Why isn't the patch in CVS ?

[Comment 10 Chris Smith 2005-04-20 07:35:55 UTC]

>Why isn't the patch in CVS ?

I have no clue who makes those decisions, I'm just a user who needed a fix. I used the proposed patch and ebuild successfully on several systems.
As a note, the problem is fixed in kde 3.4.

[Comment 11 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-04-25 11:57:47 UTC]

> Why isn't the patch in CVS ?

Time, testing environment (I for one don't use imap). Also I guess everyone expected a bugfix release together with KDE 3.4.

Herd: Since the svn conversion seems to take quite a some time, we can('t) wait for ages. Does anyone oppose against commiting the fix?

[Comment 12 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2005-04-25 12:28:35 UTC]

Fine with me - I use imap extensively, but I'm not on 3.3.2 anymore

[Comment 13 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-04-26 09:04:39 UTC]

>but I'm not on 3.3.2 anymore

Same here. We need at least one dedicated test box - and someone who cares for it. :)


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