[Kde-pim] Cleaning up obsolete features

[laurent Montel]

Le Friday 31 July 2015, 15:44:40 Allen Winter a écrit :
> On Friday, July 31, 2015 07:26:24 PM Volker Krause wrote:
> > 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.
> > - configurable host name for SMTP, even changeable per identity??
> > - external composer editor support
> > - 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? :)
> 
> spam filtering and virus filtering
> should be discussed as candidates for removal

Why ?

Why remove all feature which works ?

> 
> are we limited to talking about KMail only?
> 
> can we discuss removing KNode (and KTimetracker and KJots,... )?

Knode/ktimetracker/kjots were already deleted in kf5

> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/

-- 
Laurent Montel | laurent.montel at kdab.com | KDE/Qt Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53,  http://www.kdab.fr


_______________________________________________
KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/