On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 16:55 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> FWIW, I prefer newsgroups and thus use gmane.org to follow most of my
> mailing lists as newsgroups. Couple that with news profiles that pan
> (the main gtk app I still use) remembers per group, and I don't have to
> worry about using the wrong address. Of course, news has always been
> somewhat obscure, unlike mail, so it's not a solution for everyone, but
> it works for me. =8^)
Are you talking about Usenet newsgroups? Usenet is a service I expected
to die a natural death _years_ ago! Talk about an Internet service that
doesn't scale well ....! Used to be that every ISP that wanted to
provide Usenet to its customers had to have at least one mondo computer
with mondo hard drives, plus a mondo feed, so that they could keep a
_local_ copy of every newsgroup to which their customers wanted to
subscribe as it came down the pike. I understand that its gotten a bit
more centralized now.
My "wrong address" is a holdover from my use of Tagged Message Delivery
Agent on my mail server for my email. Special email addresses, e.g.
"fmouse-gentoo@...", were exempted from TMDA processing. I don't
use TMDA anymore and really ought to change my subscriptions. I have a
lot of "ought to"s here and a severe shortage of round tuits :-)
> > I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE. It used to
> > be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software
> > design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot
> > of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff
> > just got abandoned.
>
> That was always my feeling too. GNOME 1 had some promise, just as KDE 2
> did, but GNOME 2 went one way and KDE 3 went another... and I preferred
> KDE. KDE 4 has yet to prove itself either way. At minimum, they botched
> the rollout there. While I'll often run bleeding edge betas, 4.0 was
> early alpha, there were simply too many missing features to be usable
> here. 4.1 is supposed to be much better. I'll see, when it comes out.
> I still believe they'll get there, but given 4.0, I'm not at all sure
> about 4.1. It may well be 4.2 or even 4.3 before it's actually worth
I see that Gentoo is stable at KDE 3.5.9, which I have as an alternative
from my gdm login (and which my desktop just spent many hours
re-emerging). I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the encouragement.
I do note that KDE ebuilds seldom if ever crap during a build, which is
not always true with gnome ebuilds.
Question: Can I run Evolution on KDE? the gnome people kind of adopted
Evolution, like they absorbed Eautilus, from Ximian. I have a lot of
time and work involved in setting up my mail and contact data which I
doubt would translate to Kontact/KMail without additional substantial
work. Does Kontact support address collections on an LDAP server?
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