n900 kontact-mobile new experimental package set in testing

Björn Balazs b at lazs.de
Wed Aug 18 19:05:31 CEST 2010


Thank you for your feedback, Jeffery.

Aus der Nachricht vom Wednesday 18. August 2010:
> I just tried the new packages, and it definitely is /much/ faster, if
> still a bit below where users would expect it to be. Startup still
> tries to start Nepomuk & Friends, but killing them via qdbus[1] works
> fine. In particular, the Actions panels (what is the official name of
> that widget?) 

We call them flaps... :)

> are much snappier, and I their value. In some places,
> though, the entries overrun the panel size. It's still not entirely
> clear how to interact with the actual e-mails list, short of tapping
> to open or deleting; is some of that functionality not implemented
> yet?

Obviously there still needs some work to be done. Please wait for updates 
here, to get more functionallity. We want to reach similar functionality to 
the desktop.

> One thing I'm not happy with is the window manager interaction. The
> task switcher button in the top-left looks and feels out of place
> because it's smaller than the system icon, and I find myself generally
> using Ctrl+Backspace rather than trying to hit the button with my
> thumb or pulling out the stylus.  Also, having to go to the task
> switcher to exit the app feels clumsy. Any ideas on how to improve
> that without wasting screen real estate?

Yea we do have ideas. This is on our agenda and will change in (near) future!.
 
> Thanks for the new packages, and good work. :)

Thanks a lot for testing and giving feedback! It helps a lot to see the 
packages are now running on phones outside our little development group :)

Best,
Björn

>  - Jeffery MacEachern
> 
> [1]: qdbus and qdbusviewer for Maemo5 are not included in the
> packages, last I checked, but you can find them here for convenience:
> http://adrestia.creativemisconfiguration.com/files/ffejery/maemo/qt/
> 
> 2010/8/18 Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>:
> > Rolf,
> > 
> > cool, you've got it to work! Thanks for giving them a spin!
> > I wonder about the 20 minutes, did you use "IMAP" as account type?
> > Kolab Server uses online imap for emails by default and with my
> > test account it does not take that long.
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 17:06:26 schrieb Rolf Offermanns:
> >> - It is still slow. 3s is an optimistic value for feedback times.
> >> Opening a mail takes ~10s. Each time.
> > 
> > Faster for me as well.
> > Can you check with top what is taking the time?
> > 
> >> - The dotted background (metal style?) looks nice but decreases
> >> readability in the list view.
> > 
> > A known problem: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247349
> > 
> >> - There are red entries in the menu(s). Are these developer functions?
> >> Not implemented yet? What does it mean?
> > 
> > I cannot say what the red color means, but yes, we are in the process of
> > implementing these functions fully. I do not know how many of them work.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Bernhard
> > 
> > 
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