Sven Burmeister said the following on 06/19/2011 07:28 AM:
I claimed that working IMAP is more important for me than not being able to run KDE without having to install akonadi or nepomuk or them being used for an addressbook.
Help me here, Sven. What does a "working IMAP" have to do with it? I have access to a number of IMAP servers, not only on the mailhub machine on my LAP - which isn't running opensuse and does its own indexing - but also at various ISP accounts in various countries. So I don't think you mean server. I use IMAP exclusively from my desktop. Yes, mailhub uses SMTP and POP, as, I'm sure, do the ISP accounts. But my desktop MUA uses only IMAP. It works great. It has for a long time. It works as well now as it did before akonadi/nepomuk came along. I used KDE3 and moved to KDE4 when it was released; I understood the development cycle (BTDT myself) and am delighted at how things have matured. I've tried using gnome, lxde, evolution, but don't feel comfortable with any of them. My complaints are all about things I am FORCED to install even if I don't want them and don't use them. Linux is supposed to be about freedoms that the other two major players in the OS game don't give us. They adopt a "my way or nothing" attitude; oh you can fiddle with "bling" but nothing like the freedom Linux gives you. The journalists may complain about the diversity of Linux while their colleagues are complaining we are killing off the diversity of wild-life. So: I don't _want_ to use Kmail. I _DO_ want to use Thunderbird. I _DO_ want to use Firefox. I _DON'T_ want to use Gnome. I _DO_ want to use GoogleCalendar. Am I alone? Perhaps some lurkers can say "me too" (PLEASE!) I don't think this is odd. What can you do? Well, I'd _like_ to stick with KDE, but ... Thunderbird and Firefox have plugins that I consider essential. Its as simple as that. If you can make Thunderbird use the Mozilla plugins I'll look at KMail. I don't imagine anything will make me use Dolphin. -- A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org