SUMMARY When I'm in Kontact and I switch from Summary to Mail to Contacts to ... I have the standard text menu bar at the top with the "Main Toolbar" shown immediately underneath that. Except for the Mail section. On that section, I do not see the "File, View, ..." menu nor do I have any toolbars shown. I think if I had the text one, I could add the toolbar that would then allow me to add a "new email" button and other shortcuts, but as of right now I have no way to create a new email from within the Kontact window, I have to go out to the separate KMail UI and that somewhat defeats the purpose of an integrated UI. When I open KMail as a stand alone application, everything works as expected. I have tried updating everything that's available as standard on Fedora 32 and rebooting the computer to make sure that it isn't a transient situation. Side note, the "New Message" in the main tool bar on the Summary tab works as expected. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Kontact 2. Switch from "Summary" to "Mail" 3. Notice all menus are missing OBSERVED RESULT All menus are missing and there is no way to start a new email message EXPECTED RESULT At the very least, the "File, View, ..." text menu should exist and allow me to add a Toolbar with the shortcuts I want (including create new email). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 32 KDE spin (Kernel 5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Perhaps Kontact's configuration files have been damaged. You should have a directory named ".local/share/kontact" in your home directory. Try shutting down Kontact and KMail, moving ".local/share/kontact" somewhere safe, and starting Kontact. Of course, if that fails miserably, move the directory back :-( If it works, you can experiment with getting your old customisations back by copying files from the saved directory to the new ".local/share/kontact" directory.
That worked! Not sure how it was originally corrupted, but everything looks good now.
Great!