Yet another failed KDE release?
Ross Boylan
ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Wed May 8 07:04:02 BST 2013
On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 04:21:21 PM Duncan wrote:
> > P.S. Composed in kmail 1.13.7, which mysteriously hangs from time to
> > time, can't autocomplete from the address book, and sometimes show blank
> > messages with any way I can see to get it show html.
>
> Kmail-1 is an effectively abandoned product. While it continued to work
> with newer kde for awhile, and my distro, gentoo, continued to offer both
> the pre-akonadified kdepim-4.4.x and the newer version in parallel for
> awhile (so the admins of individual installations could choose which they
> wanted), without anyone officially adopting and continuing to maintain
> the pre-akonadi version, that's getting tough to maintain as mainline kde
> progresses farther away, leaving kdepim-4.4 (with kmail-1) further and
> further behind and stale.
I'm using Debian Wheezy, which was released about 2 days ago. It's a little
odd: help | about shows KMail Version 1.13.7 use KDE dev Platform 4.8.4. The
Debian package version number is 4.4.11, which I suppose is a reference to the
kde pim version.
I'm guessing the Debian packagers thought KMail 2 was too unreliable, at least
when they made the packaging decision, which would have been quite a biit
before the release.
Maybe some of the problems like the address book non-lookup are from mixing
KMail one with a later general KDE release.
Ross
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