[kdepim-users] KMail SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW

[Werner Joss]

On Thursday 24 November 2011 21:50:00 Andras Mantia wrote:
> This is sad to hear, but of course I can accept the decisions (and with
> Quanta I can perfectly understand ;) - sorry for not taking it forward).

no need for apologize, Andras,
I appreciate all the work you put in quanta in the past.
in the end, you needed a job to live from, with your family.
and, as I see, this is still one where you can work on kde, thus directly 
taking profit from what you did, then, and (hopefully) have fun.
all ok, then :)

> However, if you can, give some chance to KDE4 in the future, especially
> with KDE 4.8. I don't promise everything will  be fixed, but it improves
> nicely. I had my share of Akonadi/KMail/Nepomuk bashing (just ask my
> coworkers), but still use it (well, except nepomuk) and I have to say that
> after the initial hops of getting it working, it does the job just as well
> as the old KMail. Of course the initial hops is not acceptable for a
> regular user, I know...

I'm not complaining about new developments like kde4/akonadi/nepomuk not 
working 'out of the box' as expected.
I know things like that need their time to mature. this is quite normal.
but I'm still not convinced the whole direction taken was the right decision.
it just seems like overkill to me to e.g. have a database server running on a 
simple single user desktop system just to be able to share adresses/emails 
between applications (which is a good thing, though).
so I'm back to a system I know well, which I can configure/backup/maintain 
easily, as everything is based on simple text files, _not_ binary blobs which 
can only be deleted when inconsitent/corrupted.
speed/responsiveness is another issue.
so, for the time beeing, I have decided to go another way.
I'll try kde4 again, some more time in the future, though.
keep up your work improving it :)

werner





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