Kmail

[Tom Achtenberg]

Yes I can blame Linux for this and I am NOT deranged.  I do agree KDE is a
great desktop.  Did your 52 year old aunt upgrade to kde 3 on her own?  What
is her back ground?  Do you do all the geeky stuff for her?  At this time do
to having to recompile so many things etc, Linux is not even close to
mainstream desktop use.  It is a geek toy.  The kde 3 upgrade is only one
example.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Charbonneau" <etriaph at kdesktop.org>
To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [kde] Kmail


On April 8, 2002 12:55 am, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> If you have to complie it yourself than that is a good example why Linux
> desktops are mostly geek toys and will never make the mainstream.

You're obviously derranged.  A Linux KDE Desktop is a great tool for most
end
users.  My aunt, who is 52 years old, uses KDE on her desktop to surf, email
and IRC.  She also creates documents for her moving business and listens to
CDs and MP3s.  Consdering this, it's on the desktop, it's just moving
slowly.
Why?  Because RedHat doesn't support KDE it supports GNOME (a bad move if
you
ask me, but what can you do?).  KDE is clearly the superior desktop
(although, that is an opinion, so don't flame that) and is ready for the
mainstream.  The only thing that needs be done is packagers making sure that
the RPMs dependancies can be easily satisifed on all systems, and that they
are compiled and packaged correctly.  KDE packages for RH not being
completely reliable doesn't suprise me.  I would imagine that if the
software
compiles, they think it's good to go and they make an RPM out of it.

In any case.  KDE is an incredible desktop, and you can't blame Linux for a
guy in a cubicle in NC.

> On Sunday 07 April 2002 02:55 pm, Robert Charbonneau wrote:
> > On April 7, 2002 04:10 pm, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > > I now have KDE 3 running on my RH 7.2 box.  So far things look good
> > > except the help for Kmail doesn't work.  If that worked, maybe my
other
> > > question would be answered.  Does anyone know how to stop a message
> > > from being marked as read just by looking at it in the preview window?
> > > I want them to stay unread until I actually open them.
> >
> > Actually Tom, this is something I just noticed, but the KDE3 packages
for
> > RH 7.2 don't have any help information anywhere at all.  It seems that
> > the good folks at RH didn't bother compiling KDE3 with libxml2 (which is
> > required for kio_help I believe).  Another good reason why people should
> > compile KDE on their own.  :)

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"If you could twist and turn away,
 If you could tear yourself in two again,
 If I could, you know I would,
 If I could I would, let it go..."
- U2, _Bad_

Robert Charbonneau
etriaph at kdesktop.org
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