[Kde-pim] fuck you, akonadi

[Lindsay Mathieson]

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. And a lot of the features sound real nice but are in the
"wouldn't it be cool if" category - ie. wouldn't it be cool if you cross
reference all your facebook, email contacts with emails and references to
"xyz ...". And they are all potential - no actual concrete. In the mean
time the basics don't work. Address book sync. Calendar Sync, Address
lookup.

Side Note: Oddly enough Android does an excellent job of linking all my
face book, gmail and phone contacts. Akonadi doesn't.

Probably time for me to shut up. I'm not interested in slagging the PIM
developers. I'm just tired of hearing how cool akonadi is going to be.
Been hearing that literally for years - keep committing to it and
regretting doing so. I bring up the Android phone because I got one for the
first time recently and it was such a delight how well it integrates and
just works, a real eye opener. Started doing development with it - again a
delight, excellent documentation, excellent examples, excellent tutorials.
Setting up the dev environment is a cinch. I've tried hacking kdepim - just
getting a dev environment setup is a PITA. The documentation on akonadi is
a joke - incomplete and inaccurate. API's are inconsistent and error
handling/reporting is poor. To much dev knowledge is institutional and
hidden.
-- 
Lindsay
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