Bug 157877

Summary:	each time I upgrade KMail my toolbar settings are erased and replaced by default one (icon set)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2008-02-15 16:03:04 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I don't know why this happens but each time I upgrade KDE Konqueror, KDevelop, Kaffeine, you name it, keeps toolbar (which I set) but only KMail each time erases it, and replaces with default one.

The only thing preserved is placement of the toolbar, the icon set are lost. And I am not talking about upgrade from KDE 2.0 to 3.0, I am talking about every minor upgrade, i.e. KDE 3.5.8.x to KDE 3.5.8.y.

I guess there should be default icon set per system and KMail should show it, and there should be local (custom) icon set (toolbar) and this should be not touched at all. Just read to show it (if exists) instead of the default one.

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2008-02-15 16:09:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142881 ***

Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-02-15 16:46:12 UTC

Thomas, why this report is a duplicate? I am not talking about numbering policy, but on design how to preserve user toolbars.

Changing in numbering won't solve a thing and I would be against it (changing numbering, it is not a solution). I wish for good design, so it would work even for KDE 1.0 -> KDE 17.0 upgrade.

Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2008-02-15 17:04:53 UTC

>Thomas, why this report is a duplicate? I am not talking about numbering policy, but on design how to preserve user toolbars. 
The toolbar settings get lost when the RC version is increased, and that's what the other bug is about, and it's also the cause of this bug report (which is essentially the same).
Read the other bug report if you want more details, for example the reason why we have to increase the RC version.

This will be fixed in KDE4.

Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-02-15 17:38:31 UTC

Thomas, I've read it before posting this report. The other one is about numbering, this one is not. In short:
the other report -- change the numbering so toolbar would be preserved on minor upgrades
my report -- provide default and custom toolbar so the custom toolbar would be kept _always_ (unless user change it of course)

ad.KDE4) I want to be sure -- in KDE4 (KMail) there is a mechanism, that ensure that _my_ toolbar won't change a bit after upgrade from KDE4.2 to KDE 4.9? (let's assume 20 new features were introduced meanwhile)