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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday, 2010-07-11, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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.

I forgot to write that this is mostly a change in UI, code from the current 
migrator for processing data and config should almost completely be reusable 
with minor adjustments.

> 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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