[opensuse-kde] Maturity of KDE4
Hi there, how mature has KDE4 become currently? I'm especially concerned about PIM, I use Kontakt a lot, especially KMail, the Usenet client, calendar and stuff. Is this already fully available with KDE4? What about transition of KMail email accounts, does this work smoothly? Would KMail of KDE4 continue to use KMail3 email folder? Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Fredag 26 december 2008 10:11:09 skrev Malte Gell:
how mature has KDE4 become currently? I'm especially concerned about PIM, I use Kontakt a lot, especially KMail, the Usenet client, calendar and stuff. Is this already fully available with KDE4?
In 4.1? .. works for me. Of course it isn't bug free, but it isn't in KDE3 either. KNode suffers a little bit from lack of love - but wrapping of sent posts was fixed recently - and I hope you don't send in iso-8859-xx charsets ;-)
What about transition of KMail email accounts, does this work smoothly? Would KMail of KDE4 continue to use KMail3 email folder?
KDE4 apps in openSUSE use ~/.kde4/ - so it won't automatically use your old KDE3 settings in ~/.kde/. When I switched to KDE4.1.0 five months ago I initially tried moving everything straight over - but I had a lot of weird little issues - so in the end I decided to reconfigure stuff (kmail, akregator, korganizer, knode) from scratch to be safe. Moving the e-mails themselves is of course no problem at all. Generally my experience is that data migrates seemlessly, settings not quite so. Only one thing to do - try it. If you're just a little bit careful with you can do it without risking losing anything. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
KDE4.1 seems a lot better although as you can see from the list there are still a few niggling little frustrations. Kontact is new version and it looks and seems to work great. My only quibble is that there is no built in migration for your current data/settings. I was hoping there was a prompt on first start to migrate your data and settings from a KDE3 version. A ".kontact" folder with links to all the kontact subsystems data/settings would be great to have so you can make the backing up/migration a lot easier. The import/export mechanism doesn't seem quite correct yet. I tried to "export" the KDE3 data and import to KDE4 but that created a subfolder structure in the new Kontact with all the KDE3 folder structure below it and all emails were showing as unread instead of reflecting the current status. So it was a complete manual data/settings upgrade via the command line. It looks like there is a gap in the market for intelligent migration tools for some apps as an app should be able to import its own data/settings. But other than that and getting used to the new layout and how to tailor it to your tastes, I'm happily using it. Opensuse 11.1 has a few of its own frustrations and regressions but once passed those, it seems fine as well. regards Ian On Friday 26 December 2008 09:11:09 Malte Gell wrote:
Hi there,
how mature has KDE4 become currently? I'm especially concerned about PIM, I use Kontakt a lot, especially KMail, the Usenet client, calendar and stuff. Is this already fully available with KDE4? What about transition of KMail email accounts, does this work smoothly? Would KMail of KDE4 continue to use KMail3 email folder?
Malte
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Ok, thanx for this insight. So, one has to invest some time and effort, but maybe this is a good chance to start with a fresh, clean Kontakt environment when migrating to KDE4.... Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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