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Am 05.10.2014 um 19:10 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On 05/10/2014 18:59, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn |
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>>>> thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I |
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>>>> could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the importer |
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>>>> managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with nothing, so I |
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>>>> switched to claws and several years later switched again to Thunderbird. |
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>> or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived emails. |
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>> But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at all and |
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>> all filters broke - several times. |
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> Ever notice how no other pim-like application feels the need to store |
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> everything in mysql or similar? The fact that so many pim-like apps |
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> actually do work should count for something |
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>>>> I keep reading reports that kdepim is nowadays so much better and |
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>>>> stable, but to be frank I do not trust it, and likely never will. I also |
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>>>> understand this is not entirely logical, but it's just the way it is. |
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>> as long as akonadi with its idiotic database backend is around, it will |
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>> never be trustworthy. |
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>>>> The rest of KDE I find to be very usable and rather pleasant to use. My |
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>>>> sole remaining gripe is lack of stored sessions in dolphin :-) |
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>> My favorite fuckups which are still around: |
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>> tumblr can make konqueror hang at 100% cpu for minutes, because of some |
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>> javascript - firefox and chromium are fine and dlisted in one tab is |
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>> fine, but open one of their articles in a new tab and konqueror just |
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>> vanishes. Not even the crash dialog pops up. |
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> I haven't used konqueror as a browser in many many months, I get along |
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> just fine with firefox and chromium. I believe konqueror is essentially |
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> unmaintained these days or at least on life support. Make a fine file |
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> manager though (kparts has always been one of KDE's very much better ideas) |
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konqueror for the usual stuff |
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firefox for video sites (like youtube)&facebook |
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chromium for fucking retard sites that make my blood boil. like |
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*.yahoo.com, tumblr, flickr. |
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