On Friday, January 04, 2013 11:47:22 PM Rodney Baker wrote:
Hi folks. Two questions for the group:
1. My main desktop machine is still running OS 11.4/KDE4.6.5/kernel 3.1.0 and is stable and fast. Apart from ongoing support, are there any COMPELLING reasons (features/usability/speed) that I should think about upgrading to 12.2/12.3?
oS 12.2 works blazing fast on my hardwares (Pentium 4, Core2Duo,and upper). Much faster than oS 12.1. It's very responsive and having not complain at all. At early beginning, I found some missing programs on 12.2 not sure why or maybe because systemd compatibility issues at that early moment I did install (early bird). I did a clean install (upgrades sometimes keep some legacy paths to fix I don't want to take care about) I had some performance issues with oS12.1 KDE 4.7.2 on Netbook. I did not try oS12.2 KDE 4.8.5 or superior. Instead I installed oS 12.2 XFCE and it runs wonderful.
(I never upgrade to .0 or .1 releases since there almost always seem to be bugs still being worked out in those releases).
It was discussed before versions mean nothing about stability or bugs free. It just a timeline reference.
2. Re KMail2, when I first tried it (when it was still in RC phase, I think, and then again after its first release) it no longer sorted the "special folders" first in the folder list (i.e. Inbox, Sent, Trash, Drafts first, then the other folders in alpahbetical order) but instead sorted ALL folders in alphabetical order (at least, when using IMAP which is what I run at home); previously KMail sorted the folder list with the "special" folders first (which I find much more usable).
KMail2 works pretty fine on my machines. It takes a little moment to download 61,000 mails on two imap mail accounts. (at least 4 GB RAM makes a difference) Maybe Internet bandwidth and RAM are key points to handle all those processes at the same time. If you have more than one mail account I'll sugest to make one by one with proper profiles.
Has this been fixed, or made configurable, or is it still sorting the folders the "broken" way (IMHO)?
Any other "improvements" over KMail 1 (IMAP functionality is of particular importance)?
The "brokenness" of KMail 2 (compared to KMail 1.13x ) is one thing that stopped me upgrading KDE past 4.6.x. That and the need to delete KDE4's settings folder and recreate my desktop layout from scratch every time (to stop Plasma crashing) every time there was a major point release (e.g. 4.3 -> 4.4, 4.4 -> 4.5, 4.5 -> 4.6).
At early beginning, Akonadi was one of the main issues on KDE 4.x.x I think we are on upper level now and all those critical issues has been solved. However, there are some tinkers to be done (Mail Filters, POP3 issues, Mail and Settings Import-Export, etc...)
Thanks in advance for the feedback.
I hope this help you to make you own conclusions. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org