kdepim in kf5?

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Hi Tobias!

Thanks for the response!  It sounds more positive than I anticipated!

The kmail problems sounds like they are not particular to FreeBSD, or?

Bengt

"Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner at freebsd.org> writes:

> Hi Bengt
>
> Yes, you cannot run kdepim4 in a plasma5 desktop as there are conflicts
> between for example baloo&co of the two versions.
>
> There are however ports for kdepim5 -- however the kimap-part of kmail at
> least suffered from very poor behaviour in
> the past (sometimes not fetching mails at all for a long time, or not
> displaying any and so on, and sometimes to work
> perfectly well for long enough to think that its great...).
>
>
> mfg Tobias
>
>
> On 9 January 2018 at 14:45, Bengt Ahlgren <bengt.ahlgren at ri.se> wrote:
>
>> First: thanks a lot for all the good work making kde run well on
>> freebsd!  I am still a happy kde4 user, but I anticipate that I need to
>> move to kf5 soon...
>>
>> I however depend heavily on kdepim (or korganizer to be more precise -
>> not kmail).
>>
>> Is the status of kdepim as described on https://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE
>> up-to-date?  If so, do I understand correctly that kdepim4 (currently)
>> does not run properly within a kf5 desktop?
>>
>> Or is it time to try out a more current kdepim (17?)?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bengt