Re: [kde] How to create missing icons for toolbar items in Kmail

On Friday 23 Feb 2007 IST, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Friday 23 February 2007 01:34, Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Friday 23 February 2007 01:14, Nigel Henry wrote:
This is frustrating. I'm using Kmail on FC2, and the button doesn't
exist on Kmail 1.6.2 (using KDE 3.2.2-14.FC2.legacy Red Hat)

I've just looked on Debian Etch on the other machine, which is using
Kmail 1.9.5 (Using KDE 3.5.5) and that has the button to change icon.

It might still be possible to do it, but just not through the GUI.
You could check what the respective change on the newer KMail does to
KMail's configuration file and then apply the same to the older KMail's
file (though it would be wise to make a backup copy first :))

Any suggestions Kevin on avoiding losing the mail, and bookmarks
while moving them would be very welcome.

This is not too diffcult.
First you need to find out where your mails are.
This can be ~/Mail or .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail (not 1005 sure about
the second one)

For example I have been using KMail for ages, so the mail is on the old
path, i.e. ~/Mail

I can do a KMail backup, including config and addressbook like this

$ tar cvzf mails.tgz
Mail/ .kde/share/config/kmailrc .kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

Restoring is just untarring the archive, of course neither KMail nor
KAddressBook should be running during either procedure :)

Since ~/Mail is a compatability feature for people who started early to
use KMail, it has to be present before running a new KMail the first
time, so it can detect it, otherwise it will create a new mail
directory in the second location mentioned above. If you already have
this second location, there is nothing special to consider.

The Konqueror bookmark file is .kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml
You can just copy it or include it in the transfer tar archive.

A good check to see if you have everything is to create such a transfer
archive and then create a new user account and unpack it there.
The new user should then have KMail and Konqueror as you would expect
them on the original account.

** Caution **
Since the new user's KMail will have the same configuration, it will do
the same mail checks if you have something like this enabled, so it
might download new mails which you then don't have back on the real
user account unless you do the transfer trick again in the other
direction,

Cheers,
Kevin

Thanks for the advice, I'll have a go tomorrow, as it's getting a bit
late now.

I'll post back with the results.

I would also recommend that you copy .kde/share/config/emailidentities so
you dont have to setup your identities again. :-)
--
Cheers!
kitts
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