Re: [Evolution] Again no smooth upgrade from Evolution 3.2 to 3.4

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 09:50 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> unfortunately after upgrading from Evolution 3.2 to 3.4 there were again
> changes and regressions. Is there no way to do some quality assurance?

Oh, sure there is: Get a Service Level Agreement with the business
edition of your favorite distribution.

> It is disappointing that there are issues after *every* upgrade. It is
> really a bad user experience and quite nerve taking.

Anybody could help by testing unstable versions / migrations and report
bugs in bugzilla.gnome.org before the major (stable) version is
released.

> Here are my issues. I have *not* looked yet, if there are any open
> tickets at GNOMEâs Bugzilla already.

Did you upgrade your distro? 
Or did you use a fresh install and Backup/Restore in Evolution?

> 1. The settings for sorting of messages were not kept. I had it on
> ÂDate before and after starting Evolution 3.4 nothing was selected,
> which was quite confusing since messages are not displayed where they
> are supposed too.
>
> 2. In Evolution 3.2 if there was a warning, a orange area was put into
> the window, with a button to discard, which I could select with a
> keyboard shortcut (in German Alt + v) and hit space bar to also discard
> it.
>
> In Evolution 3.4 the button is gone and I have to use the mouse to click
> on the cross.

Confirming.

> 3. My spelling settings were also not migrated. I had it set to check
> for German and English. In Evolution 3.4 it is only German again.

/data/evolution.convert in git lists composer-spell-languages.
Might be a bug in the migration from gconf to GSettings. 
Would be interesting to know if conversion of other arrays worked.

andre
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