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KDE 3.1.3© Copyright Darrell Anderson. KDE 3.1.3 definitely is faster than KDE 3.0x. Konqueror still is slow to start and crashes frequently. KFind is still too slow for any practical use. However, I finally figured out why Konqueror never remembered window positions. The problem is that when I selected the Konqueror “Save profile” menu option, the profile descriptions presented in the list were not the same as the profiles configured in my desktop icons. They need to be spelled exactly the same. The Konqueror dialog box provides the illusion that the profiles are the same. They are not. Regardless, I still find Konqueror a PITA. Sometimes Konqueror does not obey the configuration information when I start from a desktop icon and the window gets places or sized differently from what the profile describes. Either I am doing something fundamentally wrong or there is something conceptually wrong in the way the programmers use the profile configuration information. KMail still does not address my fundamental needs. This time I spent a lot of time playing with KMail. I did a lot of configuring and testing by sending myself emails. KMail still provides no basic text formatting. I want to like KMail but I can’t. I ran into configuration problems. KMail supports SMTP authentication, but that type of authentication should not be confused with basic password authentication. This is terribly confusing and I could not get two of my email addresses to work until I actually disabled SMTP authentication. Frustrating! I was able, however, to create three separate configuration directories similar to how I run Eudora. All I need do now is to write a script that will use the correct configuration file when starting. Then I can keep my mail separate between my various user profiles. I have my personal mail I need to maintain, as well as mail for another individual, and the mail for a non-profit organization. Although I was able to eventually configure KMail to handle all three profiles from within one session, I found the overhead too much to track. I cannot have my mail intermixed between the three profiles and I need separate sessions. I understand many people have successfully run Eudora using CrossOver Office, but if I am going to use Windows programs in Linux, I’ll just keep using Windows. The KMail people need to look at Eudora and learn why the program remains popular with many users. Finis. |
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