On 5/6/10 6:27 PM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 05/05/10 15:05, Richard Bos wrote:
Hello,
is there already somebody that tested or uses the PIM (personal information manager: kontact, kmail, korganizer, akregator, etc) in the upcoming openSUSE 11.3? I think that OS-11.3 comes with KDE-4.4 Because this version uses more of the nepomuk features it (that is the PIM suite) might be slower. I'm curious to kde-4.4 pim experience.
This user is not too happy about it: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-dont-need-no-stinking-nepomuk- right.html?showComment=1273024038515#c5551691194334412076
That comment thread is pretty familiar - it looks a lot like the arguments that were happening when KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were released. But the developer can only take software so far without releasing and getting some real feedback. Yes, its not perfect yet, but we'll get there. While certain decisions around KDE4 development should have been done differently, I think overall it has been shown that it was worth it. Hopefully we'll get to the same stage with PIM - if the devs listen to the users who are saying "its not perfect, abandon it all now" imagine where we will end up. Aaron is trying to reason with them anyway, and he raises some good points.
But on the topic of actual KDE SC 4.4 PIM experiences, I personally find it quite usable - but I'm not a big time PIM user. I was able to migrate my kaddressbook contacts to akonadi/nepomuk, and that works fine. All the features that I need at least are available, and a few extras like Google syncing. I was unable to migrate my korganizer calendar. But it still works, just based on the old-style storage. I don't use Kmail so can't comment on that. I don't see any significant slowdowns relative to previous KDE SC's. Akonadi / nepomuk does spawn quite a few threads, but seems to run quietly. I have strigi disabled because it was stressing my laptop HD a little too much.
Regards, Tejas
I push Kontact/Kmail pretty hard. Multiple IMAP accounts, some holding 60k+ messages etc. KDE 4.4.x PIM seems pretty solid and works faster it seems than earlier versions. I do not use Nopemuk and Strigi is disabled here. The only real annoyance was the lack o import or my old distribution lists and recreating them was a pain - a task still not finished. YMMV, but 4.4.x does seem to me to have some real fixes under the hood, perhaps not as many user visible goodies. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org