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The utterly infuriating thing....

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Alcibiades

Jun 05, 2010
10:44 PM EDT 		The utterly infuriating thing about the KDE pim is in Kmail, the fact that it switches to overwrite mode without warning, and you cannot switch back. Well, apart from the crashes that using it from Kontact produces.

Its a classic, in a nutshell, everything that has become wrong with KDE. Its been complained about for years, and they simply will not fix it. What happens is, you are happily typing a message. You realize you need to amplify a point. You click in the body of what you've typed, and start writing. Sometimes, it overwrites everything you already wrote. Sometimes it inserts. I have googled it, I can find lots of complaints, I can find people from KDE explaining this is not a bug, which who cares, its worse than a bug, if its a feature, its one apparently deliberately made for no purpose but to infuriate users.

You can find statements that there is no way to turn back overwrite to insert once you've set it to overwrite. Why on earth would anyone put such a feature into any editor?

The thing I have not yet found is any account of what makes it go into overwrite mode in the first place.

It is this sort of thing that makes one ask, what is KDE for? And increasingly, answer comes there none.

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