[kdepim-users] Re: [opensuse] Kmail preview pane

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 22:54 on Monday 04 April 2011, Ingo Klöcker 
did opine thusly:

> > I don't think you have a basis for feeling insulted. None of us is
> > clairvoyant.
> 
> I'm not feeling insulted by you. Don't get me wrong. I'm feeling 
> insulted by Mr. McKinnon. As Anne did already point out he wrote "But 
> the kdepim devs are showing every sign of being brain-dead [...]". Being 
> one of those kdepim devs (albeit a mostly inactive one) I think I have a 
> pretty good basis for feeling insulted by Mr. McKinnon.

You can feel that way if you wish, that is your right. You may also ignore me 
and brush me off as an ignorant fool. 

But you have no idea what kdepim has put me through the past 3 months. I have 
not found a single version after 4.4.10 that is usable in any realistic 
definition of the word.

4.5.94 was the one I stayed with the longest. It had no calendar entries, they 
were just missing. I eventually found a post on the KDE forums that explained 
why - apparently someone forgot to do something with the code and hey 
whoopsie, no calendar info. Clicking on a mail in the folder view took seconds 
to refresh. IMAP connections would mysteriously disappear. none of these 
things were present in 4.4.10

This is a dual core notebook with 4G RAM and slightly more than 4G swap. 10 
minutes after a reboot, with akonadi taking 100% cpu on both cores, I would 
run out of swap. RUN OUT OF SWAP! The notebook was unusable because of a 
reindexing going on between akonadi and nepomuk (strigi text indexing is 
disabled).

I've read all the dev's reasoning behind the changes and in a corporate 
environment needing groupware that is fine, I suppose. But I have found no 
evidence anywhere that the kdepim dev team consulted users who might not want 
all that. And that was the gist of my post.

Anyone can feel free to prove me wrong, and the best proof is of course 
shipped, running code.


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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