On Friday 12 February 2016 08:24:25 Nick Leverton wrote:
In article 201602102119.32759.gheskett@shentel.net,
Gene Heskett trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
On Wednesday 10 February 2016 18:18:33 Nick Leverton wrote:
In the distant past, relying on logout to save session didn't always work for me, or else would restore session once but then not again. But that was way back in KDE3 days, and I've just stuck with the easy option.
Nick
Well, unless froggy's magic twanger has been plucked, most of the r14.0.0.3 code base is still kde3.5. So unless someone has addressed it since the fork, that particular speed bump is probably still there.
I should apologise, I didn't mean to suggest that there is a bug there nowadays. Like many of us I just established a way of working many years ago and have been reluctant to change something that works !
Nick
We are ALL creatures of habit. And at 81, I've had about as long as anyone on the 'net to "develop" them. :) But we now have 3 generations that have no clue what "froggies magic twanger" even was. That tv program for kids dates back to about '48 or '49, and I was already fixing those first tv's for smoke money by then. Its been quite a ride.
In '50, seeing what we do today reminds of an Art Clark saying, That any sufficiently advanced technology is indestinguishable from magic.
But now we write bash scripts and make our own magic spells. They do the repetitive, boring stuff in the background here, so all I have left to is tap the + key to read the next message, reply if I can help, and hit the + key till there are no more messages to read. ALL the time killers that freeze up kmail while one is in the middle of typing a reply have been offloaded to background utilities, some of which I wrote. Fetchmail/procmail/clamd/spamd take care of pulling the mail and filtering it, but they don't have a mechanism to tell kmail there is new mail in /var/spool/mail when they are done, so I wrote a bash thing that uses inotifywait to detect that, and it sends kmail the "get the mail" command when a new messsage has arrived, tying it all together.
Such convenience is making me lazy in my dotage. ;-)
Cheers, Gene Heskett