On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Martin Schlander
Torsdag den 6. maj 2010 17:39:04 skrev Richard Bos:
Does no one have experience with kde-4.4 (pim suite) on openSUSE_11.3. Any one having experience with it on OS-11.2?
Dunno why it would be different on 11.3 vs. 11.2.
Works fine for me with 4.4.x on 11.2. Don't remember hearing any special complaints about 4.4 vs. 4.3 either, except a few special use cases with KAdressbook.
I'm not sure the use-cases are that special. Aren't contact categories not supported? There seems to be some fairly serious feature regressions in kaddressbook in 4.4. I am all for KDE releasing software in that way, but as a distribution I think it would be better if openSUSE did not have those sorts of feature regressions if possible. As far as I understand it the KDE 4.3 version of kaddressbook will work fine with KDE 4.4. If it is feasible, I might suggest releasing the KDE 4.3 version of kaddressbook with the default version of openSUSE 11.3, and release an alternative package, perhaps called kaddressbook2 or kdepim2-kaddressbook, that conflicts with kaddressbook and includes the KDE 4.4 version of kaddressbook. People who want to use the akonadi-based version will be able to do so, but people who don't understand anything about akonadi to begin with will not be surprised by a loss of functionality. As additional kdepim applications are ported to akonadi, I would do the same thing with these applications until they have reached feature parity with the older ones, then get rid of the kdepim2-* or *2 versions of the packages and make the standard versions the akonadi-based ones. I am not suggesting we avoid supporting akonadi, I think akonadi is great, this is just a way to avoid bugs and feature regressions for users while kdepim2 is completed. From what Aaron was saying it doesn't seem like the transition to akonadi will be very smooth, so I think it is good for users if openSUSE helps smooth it out a bit while still allowing people to switch early if they want to. This is intentionally mirroring, to an extent, how the transition from 3.5 to 4 was handled by openSUSE, which I think was so well done it should serve as a model on how to make that sort of transition. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org