[kdepim-users] kde-pim hopeless?

[Robert Smits]

On May 5, 2013 07:04:02 am Russ Kepler wrote:
> Should I just give up and move on?  From my perspective the kontact/kmail
> system has gone from a fairly robust (if occasionally slow) system that
> dealt well with mail to a bug-ridden system that doesn't filter received
> mail properly, search received mail properly after it's filtered and sucks
> down resources like nothing I've ever seen (virtuoso-t usually is at 2GB of
> ram after a couple of days and is usually consuming one core continuously).
>
> For a while it looked like things were getting better then suddenly it all
> regressed to worse than the starting state.  I don't know if the
> development team does any unit testing but I'm fairly sure that there's no
> regression testing, or if there is the testing is either too minor, test
> cases too trivial or the results of testing ignored.
>
> It's PITA to move away but unless someone can give me any hope that things
> are going to get better I'm feeling that's the only choice.  I'd rather
> have a system that ran slowly than one I can't trust at all.
>
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Russ, rather than giving up completely on KDEPIM, you might want to consider 
doing what I did - reverting to KDEPIM3. Now a days it's very easy to do. 
Whether you use 12.1,12.2 or 12.3.

Download and install the OS.

Add the KDE3 repo from community repositories. 

Delete KDEPIM4 from your system.

Install KDE3.

Install KDEPIM3 

I've been using it ever since the first version of KDEPIM 4 came out. 
Periodically I go back and look at KDEPIM4 to see if it's up to snuff yet and 
it isn't , I keep using KDEPIM3 - it's robust, fully featured, and doesn't 
screw up. 

KDEPIM 4 may someday be a better version of KDEPIM3, but IMHO. it's not there 
yet. 

-- 
Bob Smits <bob at rsmits.ca> 
"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the 
answer."   - Erik Naggum
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