Stan Goodman said the following on 08/09/2011 09:14 AM:
Of course, not everyone prefers Thunderbird to Kmail. I don't, for example, which is one of the reasons I will return to KDE3 so I can use the unadorned Kmail.
There's a bit of illogic there. You don't like Kmail2 -- I emphasise the "2" -- so return to KDE3 rather than use, as I do, the very capable and extensible Thunderbird under KDE4. Its not clear where your prejudices lie. Many who like KDE4 don't like what's happened to Kmail in version 2. Perhaps Ian is one of them. Perhaps the functionality of many accounts is more important than retreating to KDE3 and loosing other features and benefits of KDE4 and applications that run under KDE4 or have fixes for running under KDE4. But then again, KDE3 doesn't support "activities" so unless Kmail _does_ support multiple accounts like Thunderbird that won't be a solution for Ian. The real advantage I see in Kmail2 over Thunderbird is integration into the KDE4 context, use of the shared libraries and storage and indexing. (When its all working, of course.) Of course if you don't use KDE all the time, if you use other DMs, then that's not an advantage and using Thunderbird _is_ of benefit. A few years ago I tried Kmail under KDE3 and last year under KDE4. In terms of the UI and user features it compares poorly with Thunderbird; but then I have half a dozen extensions for Thunderbird that have no equivalent under Kmail. I can understand avoiding Kmail2 because of Kmail2 development and integration problems such as those that have been reported here recently. But sorry, I have little time for dishonest recidivism. Honest recidivism, running KDE3 on a machine from 2002 with 256M of memory and a 60G drive, in an office with incandescent lighting where you've driven to in a car that uses leaded fuel and has tires with inner tubes ... that's another matter. That kind of recidivism I can admire :-) -- Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. -- Frank Borman, U.S. Astronaut -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org