Goodbye for now, kmail

Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk
Sat May 6 12:56:29 BST 2017


On Saturday 06 May 2017 13:00:06 Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2017, 12:41:05 schrieb Werner Joss:
> > Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2017, 12:32:19 schrieb René J.V. Bertin:
> > > Use KMail from the Trinity desktop, supposing the Trinity devs have
> > > managed
> > > to keep Qt3 alive and kicking?
> > 
> > they have, I can confirm that.
> > I use trinity incl. kontact/kmail on a regular basis on 3 older PCs
> > (including an eeepc 701) running debian jessie.
> > it just works.
> 
> well, of course, there are drawbacks :)
> 
> -	the rest of kdepim (calendar, kontacts..) lacks the integration for
> google services (while kmail works with gmail IMAP)
> 
> -	trinity does not have a working integrated browser (trinity konqueror
> is way outdated and modern browsers like chromium, firefox do not integrate
> with trinity)
> 
> but here are still other benefits:
> 
> most of the old kde3 applications, which have been abandoned (without a
> decent replacement) by the kde devs, like quanta, kommander, kedit, kitty
> and many others, are still alive in trinity and working.

Well. I wonder how hard it would be to integrate KMail from Trinity into my 
Gentoo system. I've no doubt all the libraries would be wrong, for a start.

-- 
Regards
Peter




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