[kdepim-users] Success with Kontact/4.8.2

[Markus Feilner]

Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 15:03:08 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> Determined to have a clean install on my netbook in time for my
> holiday, I installed Mageia beta3.  This was quickly updated to KDE
> 4.8.2, including kdepim.  Almost everything is working perfectly - almost,
> in that I can't connect to my Google contacts, but that's not the end of
> the world.
> 
> KMail is accessing both Googlemail and my own IMAP server, set up as a
> Roaming profile for while I'm away.  No long waits, nothing going missing
> and all apparently working perfectly.
> 
> Calendar - I'm using my Google calendar - useful as it is on my phone
> too.  The new connection facility is unbelievably slick.  Thanks for that!
> 
> :-)  The only downside is that the calendar is rather slow to load.  I had
> 
> just decided it must be broken when things started to appear.
> 
> Contacts - I copied all the vcards from my main laptop onto the
> netbook.  I seem to have lost the few cards that were in the top-level
> Personal Contacts, but the folders below it are all there.  The old
> std.vcf also works fine.
> 
> Akregator appears to have picked up all my old feeds - copied in from
> the older Fedora 14 install.  I haven't had time to work with it, but it
> looks fine, and notifications tell me that new feed entries are arriving.
> 
> All in all, this is a huge relief, as my main laptop went down this morning
> and looks totally dead :-(  Still, at least this netbook, Mageia, and the
> new Kontact are going to get me through.
> 
> Thanks to all
> 
> Anne
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I can confirm that. Been using 4.8.2 on Suse Tumbleweed for a while, and almost 
all the things that annoyed me on Ubuntu and Mint are working here. Only thing 
that's not (yet) working is autocompletion of mail adresses. Grmpfh! :-)


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