Re: [Evolution] Evolution vs. KDE (It's a stand off -- KDE now leads)

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 13:37 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 00:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 17:56 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:26 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > I suspect the source of the problem is that a change in gnome-keyring,
> > > or something associated with it has caused a change in the user
> > > interface: Up till now, if an attempt was made to access the Login
> > > keyring when it was locked, a box would appear requesting the user to
> > > enter the passphrase for the keyring.  Now (I suppose because the
> > > keyring is supposed to be unlocked at login time) no such box appears.
> > > So the Login keyring remains locked till it is unlocked using seahorse;
> > > if I unlock it in seahorse, evolution sends properly.  Logging into a
> > > Gnome session unlocks the keyring, and it remains unlocked even in a
> > > following KDE session, but not after a reboot.
> > >
> > > A work around is to start each KDE session by using seahorse to unlock
> > > the Login keyring.  Which is a little tedious.  Is there some way to put
> > > something (a script) into the autostart folder that will unlock the
> > > Login keyring?
> >
> > I'd just like to mention that I also use Evo under KDE (in Fedora 18),
> > and I've not seen any change in behaviour in the last year or two. IOW
> > the first use of Evo under a new KDE session causes a popup asking for
> > my login password. Subsequent Evo instances don't ask for anything. I'm
> > never asked for an email account password (they're in the keyring).
> >
> > I'm also not running Seahorse.
>
> Evolution used to work just as you describe till shortly after the
> system was upgraded to F-18, then the popup you describe stopped
> appearing, and sending became impossible.

My version is also 3.6.3, under KDE 4.9.5.

> Evolution version is 3.6.3.  BTW: the function of the mouse buttons has
> just changed, I think with this version.  In particular a left click on
> the scrollbar causes a "scroll to here", where before it caused a scroll
> up or down by a half page.  Do you see this new behavior?

I'm seeing the "scroll to here" behaviour, but I couldn't tell you if
that is a change from before. It's not something I use a lot.

poc