On 05/10/2014 18:59, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn >> > thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I >> > could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the importer >> > managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with nothing, so I >> > switched to claws and several years later switched again to Thunderbird. > or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived emails. > But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at all and > all filters broke - several times.
Ever notice how no other pim-like application feels the need to store everything in mysql or similar? The fact that so many pim-like apps actually do work should count for something > >> > >> > I keep reading reports that kdepim is nowadays so much better and >> > stable, but to be frank I do not trust it, and likely never will. I also >> > understand this is not entirely logical, but it's just the way it is. > as long as akonadi with its idiotic database backend is around, it will > never be trustworthy. >> > >> > The rest of KDE I find to be very usable and rather pleasant to use. My >> > sole remaining gripe is lack of stored sessions in dolphin :-) >> > > My favorite fuckups which are still around: > tumblr can make konqueror hang at 100% cpu for minutes, because of some > javascript - firefox and chromium are fine and dlisted in one tab is > fine, but open one of their articles in a new tab and konqueror just > vanishes. Not even the crash dialog pops up. I haven't used konqueror as a browser in many many months, I get along just fine with firefox and chromium. I believe konqueror is essentially unmaintained these days or at least on life support. Make a fine file manager though (kparts has always been one of KDE's very much better ideas) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
