Known "showstoppers"?

Till Adam adam at kde.org
Fri Feb 25 19:43:08 GMT 2005


On Friday 25 February 2005 20:01, George Staikos wrote:
> On Friday 25 February 2005 13:52, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > George Staikos wrote:
> > > On Friday 25 February 2005 12:12, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > >> It's just necessary to start kmail, but it won't happen in a plain
> > >> vanilla kde installation, only when the users set up an imap resource.

>   It does make sense, but the solution is clearly more complicated than the
> developers are willing to implement at this time.  For instance, having the
> ability to read this data out of the kmail cache, or having a centralized
> process (that for instance terminates after x minutes of inactivity). 
> There are lots of solutions.
>
>   As it stands, this is a heavy penalty that kdepim imposes on KDE.  Do the
> DAV resources suffer the same problems, or is this purely IMAP resource
> specific?

It's specific to the kolab/imap resource. It's a design decision (one could 
call it a liability) inherited from the original resource implementation 
which, as you know, happened under extreme time constraints. We'll fix that 
in KDE 4 (like everything else).

Till
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