Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@...> posted
1214007177.17338.20.camel@..., excerpted below, on Fri,
20 Jun 2008 19:12:57 -0500:
> Evolution [is] an odd piece. The feature design is absolutely
> brilliant, but somewhere along the way the programming got short
> shrift. [I]f you do anything in the least insulting
> to it, it goes away. [...] Evolution is typical Gnome stuff.
> Absolutely brilliant in theory and design but buggy as all getout.
LOL! That's about the reputation I've seen of it. Still, having never
tried it, I didn't feel it my place to say so. Glad even its perhaps
best users have a healthy appreciation for its reputation and faults. To
bad it has to be so finicky, however, as there's a lot of folks that
depend on it and could really use better stability.
> I checked out KMail. Yes, it runs LDAP, but only to transfer name and
> phone number info into its internal database - not address and details -
> and it doesn't display LDAP data on a par with its internal db as
> Evolution does.
FWIW, nearly all the KDE guys' focus has been on KDE 4, for two years
now. The KDE 3 side of things has been maintained, but not a lot more.
With KDE 4.1 completing the kdepim transition to KDE 4 (it wasn't all
there for 4.0), 4.2 should bring some new features again, including the
first major new kontact features in awhile. You're right to be checking
the 3.5.9 version at the moment, but it really hasn't had a whole lot
done to it for awhile due to the above. So if it's not meeting your
needs now and it doesn't appear it can, I'd certainly recommend checking
it out again around 4.2 or 4.3. Once they get up to speed on KDE 4, the
better modularization, integrated search features, etc, should really
start to add up to something that can move pretty fast, very possibly
ultimately surpassing Evolution. Even basically matching it while
keeping stability will be a big deal, as you noted. However, it's not
there yet.
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