12 Feb
2016
12 Feb
'16
3:05 p.m.
On Friday 12 February 2016 08:24:25 Nick Leverton wrote:
In article
<201602102119.32759.gheskett(a)shentel.net>et>,
Gene Heskett <trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
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
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On Wednesday 10 February 2016 18:18:33 Nick
Leverton wrote:
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 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.