[Kde-pim] Mail Migration: lessons from recent feedback

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi all,

feedback of testers at Akademy (e.g. David Faure, Andre Wöbbeking, etc) as 
well as people testing the 4.5 TP1 have shown that our current approach does 
not work as well as we had hoped.

It is a time consuming process with no way of not opting out, runs every time 
on KMail startup until all accounts are migrated successfully (which could 
potentially mean forever) and so on.

There is of course room for improvement of the migrator but I am afraid that 
some things will require a different approach.

Since almost all improvements will break string freeze due to introducing user 
choices, I'd like to propose a new way forward.

Depending that this is also acceptable by the translations teams, I propose 
that we do it as a new "first startup" wizard instead.

If I remember correctly, KMail1 has such a thing that allows you to create 
initial identity and account setup.
The new thing would be like that but detect whether a KMail1 setup exists. If 
that is the case, it will offer to import that.

I haven't looked at the account wizard yet, would that be a good starting 
point or should the new thing just delegate to it in case of "create new 
setup"?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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