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

[O. Sinclair]

On 23/03/12 17:21, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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"
>>>
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>>
>> 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.
>

my apologies to you Kevin if you are indeed a KDEPIM developer, 
something I had not noticed. Your signature states KDE Dev, but not 
specifically what parts.

Obviously being a dev of another piece of KDE does not make you a guru 
of all the other bits and pieces but the comments he makes is the best 
clue I have seen so far as to why this function is gone.

I will go a mile extra next week (slow internet at home) and 
download/install Kub Beta w 12.04 in a virtualbox machine, make a fresh 
KMail user and see if it then works. If it still does not work I can 
only consider it broken, at least in Kubuntu w KDE 4.8.1 and apparently 
OpenSuse w KDE 4.8.x

Sinclair

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