Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2011, 09:40:01 schrieb Tim:
And like I mentioned I think KDE users are the biggest user base of openSUSE and openSUSE is often recommend if people want to use KDE.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not blaming, just don't make this mistake. I think incidents like this are the reasons for people to change the distribution.
And it is really hard to lose a certain reputation. Not a long time ago I was asked if zypper is now better working then in openSUSE 10 because they had such a bad experience and they had never tried openSUSE again since then.
zypper is openSUSE specific, KDE is not. So you are comparing two different things.
So please if Kmail 4.4 still works with 12.1 use it. I shouldn't even be much of a maintenance case since it should be stable and is still maintained for 11.4.
I used 4.4 and I use 4.7 and they both work and they both have defects. I use Thunderbird on other machines as well and guess what – it has issues. For example after it updated itself on Windows thunderbird only started in save mode and a "normal" user was not able to know why or how to change it. Too bad. KDEPIM 4.4 + imap + suspend/resume would be an example why 4.4 is not better than 4.7.
For experimental people there could be a separate repository shipping kmail 4.7 or people use the state of the art KDE repository.
I'd rather ship KDE 4.8 as official update than maintaining something which is not maintained upstream anymore.
After confirming the last message box I got another one in Kmail: "KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection."
After confirming that Kmail vanishes except of the mail account creation dialog.
Try to open systemsettings > Personal information and check whether there is a local folders resource, if not add it.
I know and it worked fine. And I am not the only one with problems: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/ 467339-kmail-issues-12-1-rc2-post2400913.html
I have also asked on IRC and people were talking about problems too.
So I would suggest to ship Kmail 4.4, if it wouldn't be such a huge effort to maintain the old release. It can't be worse than what people might experiencing when upgrading/installing and trying to use it.
They will have to migrate at some point. Moving all your email and addresses to Thunderbird is not less work than migrating manually to kmail2. And upstream will rather concentrate on kmail rather than its migration tools. That might not be how one wishes it to be, but given low resources it is the way it works. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org