[Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

[Robert Fox]

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 00:15 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Robert Fox wrote:
> > Evolution is my main mail client and I can't love without it - but when
> > I start it under KDE, the message list pane is always blank.  I think it
> > may be a GTK problem but not sure . . .
> 
> Could you start it from a terminal and see if there is any output? Error
> messages, warnings, etc? Further, could you please try and double click
> and so on to determine if it is either just pretending to be blank (e.g.
> white/white for everything) or really not showing anything?

No errors:

[rfox at linux ~]$ evolution
Migrating cached data
Migrating config data
Migrating local user data

mv /home/rfox/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db /home/rfox/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db
  FAILED: Destination file already exists
  rmdir /home/rfox/.evolution/mail/local
  FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows)
          folders.db
  rmdir /home/rfox/.evolution/mail
  FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows)
          local
  rmdir /home/rfox/.evolution/tasks
  FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows)
          tasks

mv /home/rfox/.evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml /home/rfox/.local/share/evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml
  FAILED: Destination file already exists

And YES - it appears that it is pretending to be blank (when I click on
the blank area, the message preview changes content - so something with
fonts or colors maybe . . .

Thx,
R.Fox