[Kde-pim] From a users point of view ....

[Christoph Bartoschek]

Am Donnerstag 23 Februar 2012, 15:04:11 schrieb Anders Lund:

> > I do use this option 3 in production and it serves me well.
> 
> 1. It looks to me like the switch of major distributions, albeit throwing a
> lot of users in troubled water, have been what made the situation clear.
> 
> 2. A lot of developers appear to tink, or did until very recent, that
> everything with kdepim 2 should be fine, at least that is the impression i
> get.
> 
> 3. I used kdepim 4.4 until the release of kde 4.8 (apart from a very unhappy
> test back in august), but while kmail in that version works fine, other
> applications - mainly korganizer in my case, was rottinging badly. Browsing
> calendars got to a point where it would take 30seconds to move the month
> view one step. Both korganizer and kaddressbook, though still not perfect,
> have improved a lot with kdepim 2, making life much easier. So it is
> unfortunately not a simple descision.
> 
> 4. I jumped in knowing it would not be easy, though the number of problems
> are still suprising to me.

Starting with Opensuse 12.1 the new kmail version was shipped. I know two 
former kmail users that switched to thunderbird because of Opensuse's decision 
to use the new stuff. And I am afraid that the number gets significantly 
higher when we decide to upgrade our desktop machines. 

But can one blame Opensuse here? I think that it takes lots of effort to keep 
the old version. In addition there is the chicken-egg problem. Without the 
users that report bugs kdepim will never get in a usable state again. 
Obviously the KDE team decided that the new kmail version is good enough. So I 
can understand that Opensuse shipped it.

In my opinion the problem is that the basic stuff does not work properly. If 
the advanced features were incomplete or buggy one could live with it. But 
when basic stuff is broken the new version feels like a big regression. I 
cannot resent that people abandon kmail2.

I am still masochistic enough to use kmail but it gets harder from day to day. 
You know the problems.

Christoph
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