[Kde-pim] *******, akonadi

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:11:15 AM Del wrote:
> 
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see a lot of mention of the advanced features that akonadi can support
> > that others (such as Thunderbird) don't - but we've been hearing that for
> > years now.
> 
> Thunderbird doesn't do simple groupware functionality with anything
> but Google services last time I checked. 

All I and a *lot* of users want - and it works well in Thunderbird
> 
>  In the mean
> 
> > time the basics don't work. Address book sync. Calendar Sync, Address
> > lookup.
> 
> They work for me, all of them. Are you using 4.8.2 now? 

yes.

And no they don't work - not reliably. Most of the time is not good enough.

And I also meant address book completeion. A utterly std feature that is known 
not to work in 4.8x


>. Kolab syncing has been remarkably stable
> though.


Kolab is very much an edge case, its a trivial number of users compared to the 
number of people that want to sync their google mail, calendars and 
addressbooks.

> 
> > Side Note: Oddly enough Android does an excellent job of linking all my
> > face book, gmail and phone contacts. Akonadi doesn't.
> 
> Really? My shiny Galaxy S2 doesn't even sync my address book at work,
> which is using the _only_ groupware protocol Android supports, namely
> Microsoft's activesync.

? So you don't know how to set it up. Syncs fine with my work email. Syncs 
perfectly with all my google stuff, whcih is a groupware protocol last time I 
checked.


> Not to mention, it has no support for
> scheduling. Have you tried syncing it with a large mailbox? It utterly
> fails to provide even the most basic functionality. 

? Again? Copes with my very large Gmail inbox just fine - which I know is a 
largely online experience. Also copes fine with my very large work IMAP 
account. But its a phone for gods sake - you *don't* want it to sync 5 GB of 
email. You don't understand resource limited devices if you think it should. I 
have yet to see akonadi syncing on a phone, if it pulled everything down I'd 
be pissed.

> bring myself to whine about it here, simply because I know that you
> and I could have improved it quite dramatically by contributing to it

Nope. tried it. Utterly impenatrable.

> with about the same amount of energy we are now burning here on the
> mailinglist with our ego-trip.

And that is the akonadi dev way - people bring up ligetimate problems, they're 
either ignored or told they don't appreciate the beauty of the architecture. 
If in frustration they lash out, then they are just trolls on a ego trip.


-- 
Lindsay
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