Re: [orca-list] Evolution Nearly Unusable on my System

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Yeah, when things get that way, what is the best way to clear out all
local footprints of Evolution and start over again? I deleted the
.evolution folder from my home directory and the evolution folder from .gconf directory but there
was still something left because it still remembered my server
settings.  Maybe if I could clear everything out, I could try again.
I really hate losing speech that way though.  The only other thing I
can think of is maybe when accessing an IMAP folder for the first time
it takes a long time and maybe during that time it locks everything
else out.  But I could alt tab sometimes to other apps, still with no
speech and attempt restarts of Orca and the like.  That's why I
concluded that some how this incident was crashing Orca.

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 04:43:57PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> evolution can be used, but sometimes it seems to be possible to mess it
> up quite a bit and make it unresponsive.
> 
> I previously had a problem on my system where evolution may lock up (to
> the point that when pressing alt-f4 a message about evolution is not
> responding  and whether I wish to wait or force a exit would appear) on
> a regular basis when I tried to write an email (either by creating a new
> message or replying). I never tracked down this problem, nor did it show
> itself on my laptop, and it has gone since I upgraded to gnome 2.22.0.
> Other than that, when it works it seems to work well. I use it with imap
> and have no problems, although if you are OK using mutt it may be
> better.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:21 +0200, Hermann wrote:
> > am So 30. Mär 2008 um 11:49:22 schrieb Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>:
> > > I want to add that the major stability problems with Evolution and
> > > Orca seem to be better if I stick to local spool and folders. Ass soon
> > > as I get prompted for passwords or anything, that's when it completely
> > > falls appart.  I lose speech and all.  I noticed that sometimes I can
> > > do the alt-f2 and restart Orca but other times that doesn't do it
> > > either.  I use IMAP for all my e-mail needs so if IMAP doesn't work
> > > right with Evolution, then I'll have to stay with mutt.  From what
> > > I've seen otherwise, I like Evolution and want to give it go where
> > > possible.  I wonder how good the calendar works from an a11y
> > > stand-point.
> >  
> > Evolution is fairly accessible, so I don't know what's wrong in your case. It can handle IMAP folders - have tried it 
> > myself.
> > Did you succeed in setting up your mail accounts? Did you choose an external SMTP server, you write something about 
> > local spool folders. I think Evolution can handle this setting too, but I'm not familiar with this. You should be
> > prompted only once for your password, provided you set your account up that way.
> > When Evolution starts correctly, you should adjust some settings in the view menu, but that's the next point.
> > Hermann
> > 
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