I usually use web based e-mail but Librewolf is slow to update (limited crew, understandable) which makes me uncomfortable for serious use. Not a fan of Firefox’s bloat. I started looking for a real e-mail app to ‘de-web’ myself a bit.
KMail is really good in my opinion. I hate Kwallet and Akonadi a bit less now that I actually need them installed.
Kmail has quite a few dependencies outside of the KDE packages. Still, one for me to look at to replace BetterBird for email.
$ sudo pacman -S kmail
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (38) New Version Net Change Download Size
extra/akonadi 25.08.3-1 4.86 MiB 1.24 MiB
extra/akonadi-calendar 25.08.3-1 3.74 MiB 0.77 MiB
extra/akonadi-import-wizard 25.08.3-1 1.86 MiB 0.69 MiB
extra/akonadi-mime 25.08.3-1 1.20 MiB 0.26 MiB
extra/akonadi-search 25.08.3-1 3.12 MiB 0.85 MiB
extra/kcalutils 25.08.3-1 2.00 MiB 0.33 MiB
extra/kdav 1:6.20.0-1 0.43 MiB 0.12 MiB
extra/kdepim-runtime 25.08.3-1 17.10 MiB 3.69 MiB
extra/kidentitymanagement 25.08.3-1 0.86 MiB 0.21 MiB
extra/kimap 25.08.3-1 0.95 MiB 0.27 MiB
extra/kldap 25.08.3-1 0.93 MiB 0.25 MiB
extra/kmail-account-wizard 25.08.3-1 0.67 MiB 0.17 MiB
extra/kmailtransport 25.08.3-1 1.22 MiB 0.28 MiB
extra/kmbox 25.08.3-1 0.08 MiB 0.03 MiB
extra/kontactinterface 25.08.3-1 0.19 MiB 0.06 MiB
extra/kpimtextedit 25.08.3-1 0.84 MiB 0.20 MiB
extra/ksmtp 25.08.3-1 0.21 MiB 0.07 MiB
extra/ktnef 25.08.3-1 0.67 MiB 0.14 MiB
extra/libgravatar 25.08.3-1 0.17 MiB 0.05 MiB
extra/libkdepim 25.08.3-1 0.37 MiB 0.10 MiB
extra/libkgapi 25.08.3-1 3.34 MiB 0.60 MiB
extra/libkleo 25.08.3-1 4.55 MiB 0.94 MiB
extra/libkolabxml 1.3.1-7 2.76 MiB 0.63 MiB
extra/libksieve 25.08.3-1 4.15 MiB 0.81 MiB
extra/mailcommon 25.08.3-1 4.26 MiB 0.89 MiB
extra/mailimporter 25.08.3-1 1.74 MiB 0.27 MiB
extra/mariadb 12.0.2-1 194.53 MiB 28.77 MiB
extra/mariadb-clients 12.0.2-1 31.82 MiB 1.82 MiB
extra/mariadb-libs 12.0.2-1 21.56 MiB 5.50 MiB
extra/mbox-importer 25.08.3-1 0.12 MiB 0.04 MiB
extra/messagelib 25.08.3-1 14.25 MiB 2.87 MiB
extra/pim-data-exporter 25.08.3-1 1.82 MiB 0.51 MiB
extra/pim-sieve-editor 25.08.3-1 1.38 MiB 0.56 MiB
extra/pimcommon 25.08.3-1 2.15 MiB 0.51 MiB
extra/qgpgme 2.0.0-2 1.36 MiB 0.30 MiB
extra/xapian-core 1:1.4.29-1 4.88 MiB 1.28 MiB
extra/xerces-c 3.3.0-3 8.29 MiB 1.42 MiB
extra/kmail 25.08.3-1 22.82 MiB 7.05 MiB
Total Download Size: 64.55 MiB
Total Installed Size: 367.23 MiB
MariaDB or mbox-importer are not so surprising for an e-mail client…
What don’t you like about BetterBird? I’d never heard of it till I searched just now: “Thunderbird on steroids”.
I tried Thunderbird itself this week also but it seems to be a chrome wrapper which put me off.
Why do you think it is a chrome wrapper?
It is based on Gecko, Firefox’s engine.
The threaded email chains are annoying to work with. It’s also a RAM hog, nearly as much as Firefox.
Betterbird doesn’t require threaded email chains. I am not using a threaded view.
As far as memory use, it certainly isn’t light weight but it is a lot smaller than a browser, at least on my machine.
I recently discovered G’Mic (GREYC’s Magic for Image Computing) standalone/Gimp plugin suite.
Having a lot of fun with it, it’s got so many filters… I mean like blimmin’ loads of them. 
Do you run it as standalone or as GIMP Plugin? I’m considering whether to install the plugin.
Exclusively as a plugin but it seems to be installed as standalone too.
Edit.. just checked and I had installed both.
Installed it as GIMP Plugin. But it is also available as a standalone in the start menu.
Thanks for this, mate 
Because Fastmail said it was a Chrome login. I or it may be incorrect of course though. I didn’t look into it.
Edit: It’ is Falkon it is detecting as Chrome, my bad. I did think it was weird they’d changed engine. I might reinstall it and give it another look. Thanks.
One thing I’m noticing about Kmail is that it isn’t seeing new emails after the machine has been to sleep. Probably a Kwallet setting I need to investigate.
Edit: I’ve just done a system update and now it works as I’d expect. There were some Kwallet related updates. Bare in mind if you use auto login you’ll have to give credentials for the wallet. KDE docs say you can set a blank wallet password in a trusted environment but I’m not sure what they mean by that.
You are correct, I was seeing the Chome logins because I tried using Falkon for a bit. It’ll just be the user agent I’m guessing.
Anytime mate, I’ve found it to be really useful.
Should try this as well. Thanks for sharing 
Always a pleasure mate.
Prek - https://github.com/j178/prek - pre-commit drop-in replacement.
I think I posted this app on this thread 6 months ago or so. I thought it was good also for fast video splits, (I used it to split music videos,) but it was not very accurate. I had a lot of overlap on each video.
…refering to losslesscut.