[Kde-pim] Cleaning up obsolete features

[laurent Montel]

Le Friday 31 July 2015, 19:26:24 Volker Krause a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> over the past 19 years KMail has accumulated a few features that have been
> needed and useful at some point, but have become obsolete for various
> reasons. They clutter the UI and increase the amount of code that has to be
> maintained. At the PIM meeting at Akademy we therefore discussed to be
> slightly more aggressive than so far in cleaning this up.
> 
> Examples of things that are already gone:
> - tip of the day (got out of fashion after the 90s)
> - local sendmail support (not shipped/installed by modern distros)
> - system speaker beep notifications (dysfunctional with semi-recent
> hardware)
> 
> Here's a few more ideas:
> - application-local network proxy settings, seems of questionable value with
> most network I/O actually happening elsewhere. System proxy settings should
> cover this.
> - there's 5 checkboxes to enable different Outlook/Exchange compatibility
> aspects of iTip messages. If that's needed at all nowadays, there should be
> just one.

Indeed.

> - configurable host name for SMTP, even changeable per identity??

It was ask from user.

> - external composer editor support

It's unit tested.
So why remove it ?

> - customizable Message-Id prefix
> - show user agent in fancy header option, if you really care about that,
> look at the message source. Same for the "all headers" header style.
> 
> More ideas? Objections? :)

Objections of course.
I don't see why we need to remove feature which works ?

How we will explain to user that we removed features ?

I don't understand idea to remove feature which works ?

If you want a light kmail perhaps you can create a new application based on 
kdepim component no ?

Regards

> 
> regards,
> Volker

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