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Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> posted |
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1214007177.17338.20.camel@×××××××××.localdomain, excerpted below, on Fri, |
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20 Jun 2008 19:12:57 -0500: |
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> Evolution [is] an odd piece. The feature design is absolutely |
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> brilliant, but somewhere along the way the programming got short |
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> shrift. [I]f you do anything in the least insulting |
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> to it, it goes away. [...] Evolution is typical Gnome stuff. |
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> Absolutely brilliant in theory and design but buggy as all getout. |
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LOL! That's about the reputation I've seen of it. Still, having never |
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tried it, I didn't feel it my place to say so. Glad even its perhaps |
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best users have a healthy appreciation for its reputation and faults. To |
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bad it has to be so finicky, however, as there's a lot of folks that |
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depend on it and could really use better stability. |
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> I checked out KMail. Yes, it runs LDAP, but only to transfer name and |
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> phone number info into its internal database - not address and details - |
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> and it doesn't display LDAP data on a par with its internal db as |
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> Evolution does. |
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FWIW, nearly all the KDE guys' focus has been on KDE 4, for two years |
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now. The KDE 3 side of things has been maintained, but not a lot more. |
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With KDE 4.1 completing the kdepim transition to KDE 4 (it wasn't all |
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there for 4.0), 4.2 should bring some new features again, including the |
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first major new kontact features in awhile. You're right to be checking |
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the 3.5.9 version at the moment, but it really hasn't had a whole lot |
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done to it for awhile due to the above. So if it's not meeting your |
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needs now and it doesn't appear it can, I'd certainly recommend checking |
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it out again around 4.2 or 4.3. Once they get up to speed on KDE 4, the |
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better modularization, integrated search features, etc, should really |
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start to add up to something that can move pretty fast, very possibly |
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ultimately surpassing Evolution. Even basically matching it while |
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keeping stability will be a big deal, as you noted. However, it's not |
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there yet. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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