Re: [Evolution] Evolution on Kubuntu

[Bart <montana_evolution_user hardinmt us>]

Oh, I just know I'm going to hear about top posting, but I'm continuing the thread as is...

Like Patrick, I've been using Evolution for some time now, under KDE, only on openSUSE.

On openSUSE 12.1, using KDE, and Evolution 3.2.1, I have no trouble opening attachments with KDE applications.  Just works well.

That said, I am having some problems with colors, particularly with yellow text on white background being used to highlight quoted text in replied messages. (yippie!)  I have the impression this is a distro issue.

Actually though, Evolution, and really all Gnome apps, look pretty good in KDE on openSUSE!

Bart



On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 10:15 -0400, Reid wrote:
>     Thank you to the group for the quick responses.  
>     
>     I'm currently using Evolution 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 11.10.   I'm thinking of switching over the Kubuntu when that platform rolls over to 12.04.  I'm a ubuntu user, and would rather not change email clients. 
>     
>     You comments about missing required themes and other formatting piece-parts make sense.  I personally  find themes (and all the messing about the get the parts working) to be a bit of a headache and dark art.  But I think you're right.
>     
>     Thx
>     
>     RSV869
>     
>     On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 22:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:27 -0400, Andreas (Andy) Roddau wrote:
> > > On April 20, 2012 16:58:31 Reid wrote:
> > > > Hello group
> > > > 
> > > > I am thinking of migrating from Gnome to KDE and would prefer to keep
> > > > using Evolution, but when I see how Evolution looks I am surprised.
> > > > Looks really bad.  I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice this.
> > > > 
> > > > Any thoughts please share.  If this has been addressed in a another post
> > > > feel free to forward that.
> > > 
> > > I prefer Evolution as a client, but as you found out there are very few icon 
> > > themes that cover the whole toolbar.  The other issue I found was that in KDE 
> > > file associations got munged somehow.  I could never open an attached document 
> > > directly from the email.  I always had to save it first.  I never figured out if 
> > > this was a my system or an inherent incompatibility between Evolution and KDE.
> >
> > None of this happens to me. Evolution under KDE is my standard email
> > client on Fedora, and has been for many years. As Adam suggests, this
> > looks more like a distro issue (not installing required themes etc.) so
> > perhaps better ask on a [K]ubuntu list.
> >
> > I also notice that the OP doesn't mention which version of Evo this is
> > (or even which version of Kununtu). Without this information it's very
> > difficult to give useful advice.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >