Goodbye for now, kmail

[Sérgio Basto]

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 13:08 +0100, ianseeks wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 09:11:59 BST Gianluca Montecchi wrote:
> > On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 12:38:37PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Anders Lund - 06.05.17, 12:19:
> > > > P?? Sat, 06 May 2017 12:07:22 +0200
> > > > 
> > > > Daniel Vr??til <dvratil at kde.org> skrev:
> > > > > You have Trojita and Sink, both support IMAP and don't use
> > > > > Akonadi.
> > > > > There's no way to add IMAP to KMail without using Akonadi.
> > > > 
> > > > No? I can't imagine this is due to technical reasons, so it
> > > > must be
> > > > religious. So a fork may be the way to go?
> > > 
> > > Anders, it *is* due to technical reasons.
> > > 
> > > Current KMail only speaks to Akonadi. I go as far as saying:
> > > Without major
> > > rework it is locked to it. So if you want to add IMAP without
> > > Akonadi to
> > > KMail you also need to do the integration with KMail, which I
> > > believe
> > > would be quite invasive change.
> > > 
> > > Either you would completely move back to pre-akonadi times of
> > > KMail which
> > > is a no-go for current KMail developers or you??d have to
> > > maintain *two*
> > > completely different IMAP access methods within KMail, including
> > > an
> > > Akonadi and a non- Akonadi access method. I don??t see how this
> > > would be
> > > maintainable by the current team.
> > 
> > So we are in a situation where KMail speak only to akonadi, which
> > in
> > turn does not work well at the only thing he need to offer to
> > kmail,
> > manage the messages.
> > 
> > At this point, a pre-akonadi kmail or something not tied to akonadi
> > are not a really appalling ideas, if you ask me.
> > 
> > Technical reasons aside, the big problem here is that the KDEPIM
> > developers have not learned anything from the KDE4 initial release
> > fiasco, so they repeated it: release basically an alpha version as
> > "ready for the end users", which in my experience is way far from
> > the
> > thruth.
> 
> The so called "KDE4 fiasco" was down to the distro's releasing it too
> soon, not 
> the KDE team. The KDE said the release was for devs to port their
> software so 
> blame the distros.

What !? don't blame distros for devel big fiascos , KDE4 /kdepim 
fiasco was made for kde developers in between 4.6.4 and 4.6.5 (more or
less ) was update in a minor version ... 

yesterday , I read  "PSA - Kontact is royally screwed up" thread in
fedora devel Mailing list , and find out akonadictl stop  , make my
laptop workload be 90% better .

First version on konqueror based on kf5 , is in Fedora devel repos ,
i.e after konqueror and other base apps can be consider stable , you
may consider plasma 5 stable.  , when you go in 5.9.4 (about 20
versions after first stable ) so don't you dare blame distros . 

I still use kde4plasma [2] which still have many bugs , but at least I
know  the bugs.  

My main conclusion the decision of replace kde-workspace for plasma-
workspace was a disaster , a very big disaster. if distros could keep
old workspace , plasma 5 was not a so big fiasco . 
        

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedorapro
ject.org/thread/3OKFPAAB6FNTG74GQBVOTCNHP33L7XUZ/

[2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sergiomb/kde4for23/

> > And as aggravating they made it a one way road, given that as today
> > kmail has not a way to export all the mails in a simple way (to
> > move
> > from kmail to claws I needed to pass throug mutt to be able to
> > import
> > the mailboxes).
> > 
> > > And again the most important question:
> > > 
> > > Who would do the fork? You? If not, whomelse? I don??t see
> > > *anyone*
> > > volunteering. Do you?
> > 
> > Obviously nobody try a fork. For once, kmail is so heavily tied to
> > akonadi that a full rewrite is probabily simpler, and people
> > just use something else, albeit not integrated with KDE, that just
> > work.
> > 
> > 
> > bye
> > Gianluca
> 
> 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.