Problem with Kmail filters

[Tony Molloy]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 11:38:11 Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Thursday 10 January 2008 11:20:47 am Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2008, Tony Molloy wrote:
> > >On Wednesday 09 January 2008 08:05:24 pm David Boles wrote:
> > >> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> | On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > >> | I also resorted to that, but I think I had to restart kde to get the
> > >> | mods to show in the filters window.  And sometime later, a day
> > >> | perhaps, I noticed that the normal edit functions seem to be
> > >> | restored. And that some of my edits had disappeared from the file,
> > >> | probably because they were just cruft, the functions I wanted
> > >> | remained.
> > >>
> > >> I thought that it was common knowledge that after a KDE update you
> > >> needed to restart (logout - login) KDE? It was like that several years
> > >> ago. Same with GNOME.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ~  David
> > >
> > >Ok maybe I should have said at the start of this thread that I use gnome
> > > not kde.
> > >
> > >Tony
> >
> > And now its back again, everything in the filters menu is read-only.
> >
> > On a restart, I get this in a shell:
> > [root at coyote ~]# kmail &
> > [1] 24899
> > [root at coyote ~]# WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended.
> > WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended.
> > WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended.
> > WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended.
>
> Same here.
>
> > Then when I try to edit a filter, I get this on the press of the apply
> > button and the edits are cleared.  This is beginning to be a PITA...
>
> Definately a PITA, especially when you get a couple of hundred mails from
> mailing lists in your inbox every morning and have to filter them manually.
>
> > QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
> > QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
> >
> > Please, what can we do about this.  FWIW, there are also messages about
> > it on the kde-pim list.
>
> I wonder if I could install just kdepim from rawhide. This is supposed to
> have to fix applied. Or would that have lots of other kde dependencies.
>

OK replying to my own e-mail here.

I installed kdepim from the latest development rpms and still have the 
problem. So back to hand filtering I guess for now ;-(

kdepim-3.5.8-13.svn20071204.ent.fc9

Tony
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
> > --
> > Cheers, Gene
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.