On Tuesday 09 August 2005 04:41, Andrew Kar wrote: >On Monday 08 August 2005 14:36, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> How can I use kate as the composer in kmail? >> >> I just tried to use the preset in kmail's composer config, and >> while it opened kate ok, kate opened after the regular composer >> screen was drawn, and it did not 'save' to the regular composer >> screen, or otherwise return the message to mail for sending. >> >> Is this a bug, or did I fubar something? > >The kmail window opening is OK, it is using it as the previewer and > so that after you have composed your email in something else you > can set the ID, transport, To and CC as well as send it. But it > doesnt seem to work with Kate. It works fine with Kwrite which is > strange since IIRC both use the same embedded text engine but I had > to have the autosave in kmail turned off (same tab as where you set > the composer.) > >andrew Odd, when I do that, I have to hit a key, as in change something in the composer window before the kwrite window opens. At that point it opens quite rapidly, half a second or so and I am now typing into kwrite. But I do need to set a larger default font, its quite small as it appears on this 1600x1200 screen. Yes, 14 point arial is much better. Now lets see if it copies back to composer & sends ok. -- 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) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.