[kdepim-users] KDEPIM 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2012-03-23, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 23/03/12 12:21, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Friday, 2012-03-23, O. Sinclair wrote:
> >> On 23/03/12 11:56, Mathias Homann wrote:
> >>> Am Freitag, 23. März 2012, 11:25:26 schrieb O. Sinclair:

> >>>> well well, on forums.kde.org a developer claims that this was
> >>>> deliberately removed to "complete transfer to Akonadi" but is back in
> >>>> "trunk". But will not be back in main code until 4.9...
> >>>> 
> >>>> which means 4.8.x is a no-go area for me at least
> >>> 
> >>> link please, I would like to comment on that.
> >> 
> >> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
> > 
> > So a user running a self built version thinks that a possible cause could
> > have been a porting artifact.
> > Not sure how this translates into "a developer claims this was
> > deliberately removed".
> > 
> > Interestingly one commentor on this thread wrote that it works for him.
> > Maybe we should also translate this in a similar manner as "a developer
> > claims this was deliberately implemented to quickly send emails to
> > contacts"
> > 
> > Subscription management:
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users
> 
> more specifically he states he is "System Settings and Device Actions
> KCM maintainer".

Yes, he is.

> Not quite mr. Average User but to me a developer.

Being a developer doesn't mean you are not a just a user of a different 
software, even if it comes from the same vendor.
Building that other software yourself might make you a more non average user, 
but then this would also be true for any non-developer building themselves, 
e.g. Gentoo users.

A difference would have been if he had stated that he had checked the code and 
saw that said functionality was disabled, but he just stated an assumption.

If I am tracking down a solution for another user's question by trying menu 
options or settings that sound related than this is very different than going 
into the code and searching there.
And depending on the complexity of the code this might even be different from 
what a developer accustomed to the code can dig up.

I wish being a developer would make me automatically all-knowing about any 
piece of software, alas it does not :-/

> Though perhaps not of KDEPIM but I struggle to remember when anyone but
> Ingo Klöcker to active part on this list or other forums.

I'd say from the last couple of days on this list at least also Andras and 
myself.
Not any other KMail developer though as far as I can tell.
Haven't checked the forum though.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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