Is KDE really usable?

[Iñaki]

El Lunes, 23 de Octubre de 2006 00:35, Peter M. Groen escribió:
> I was reading this post and was a bit surprised. I use KDE (From 1999 ) for
> my daily business and yes, it has improved tremendously over the years.
> I'll be the last to claim it is flawless, but definitely useable for an
> office environment like mine. But maybe I was lucky. (Yes WebDav is used,
> VCards are used, Kontact is running constant and invitations from Outlook
> are processed without problems..)

Kontact crashes too much in every versions I've tried. And more when 
using "exotic" features as webdav calendar and so (it crashes 50% times when 
adding an event in a webdav calendar).

Kmail erases the folder properties (icon, identity, mail-list...) every weeks.

Kaddressbook empties the contacts resource many times. And it allows you to 
store your contacts in a remote place by using kios, but it doesn't provide 
you a lock system, so if you share you resource.vcf using fish:// you will 
loose your contacts when changing them. It could be a kio issue (or protocol 
issue), but then why to offer it?

The filters in Kmail don't work sometimes and receiving IMAP mails using DIMAP 
with a not very fast internet connection produces Kmail to crash and 
finishing never downloading the mails.

Kmail doesn't allow to encrypt a mail (with the recipient's public key) if the 
identity hasn't a public-private key (that is obviously innecesary):
   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93436


I think they are too much reasons not to consider Kontact stable for 
production enviroments.


Regards.



-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo