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Re: Details Arrive About Next KDE

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____/ Peter KÃhlmann on Monday 14 Nov 2011 22:38 : \____

> Homer wrote:
> 
>> Verily I say unto thee that Peter KÃhlmann spake thusly:
>>> Homer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Verily I say unto thee that Gregory Shearman spake thusly:
>>>>> On 2011-11-12, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> KDE gets better with every release. I like it far better than 3.x.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is nothing in 3.x that I miss except being able to drag and
>>>>>> drop messages in KNode (app-specific).
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh, kNode...
>>>>>
>>>>> I found it clunky and ugly.
>>>> 
>>>> And its formatting is even worse than MT-NewsMangler.
>>>
>>> No
>> 
>> Well just look at any of Roy's KNode posts, for example. Broken
>> signature delimiter (RFC 3676),
> 
> problem not only for knode
> 
>> lines longer than 79 characters
> 
> setup
> 
>> (RFC 2646), and it has the nasty habit of occasionally breaking
>> quotes,
> 
> no, it doesn't
> 
>>>> like
>>> this,
>> for some reason, although I haven't seen it do the latter for a
>> while, so I assume they finally fixed that.
> 
> 
> quotig problems have been fixed for some time
>  
>> Maybe this is just a case of Roy incorrectly configuring KNode,
> 
> Right
> 
>> but I remember seeing posts from other KNode users with similar
>> problems in the past, so either a lot of people do not know how
>> to properly configure KNode, or it has some major problems.
> 
> People have no idea at all to configure other newsreaders.
> That is not a problem of the particular newsreader

Some things ceased to work properly in KDE4. For instance, URLs were forcibly
sliced (multiple lines) and drag-and-drop for messages was lost.

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