On Tuesday 14 October 2014 11:42:53 Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2014-10-13, 16:41:58, john Culleton wrote: > > When the switch was made from KDE3.5 to KDE4 I > > struggled with KDE and kmail for a while but > > ultimately adopted the XFCE GUI and also Claws > > Mail. Thus far I have seen no compelling reason > > to go back to KDE or its utilities like kmail.
I usually find this sort of "let's drop KMail and KDE" messages on this list distasteful. How are they promoting any interest of the members of this list? > > You mean that the classic unix virtue of separating functions into discrete > programs as used by KMail2's architecture is not viable for end user > programs? > > And that a more monolithic approach of having everything in one program > works better and should have been used like in Claws? > That said, I also find defenses of KMail2 odd. KMail2 is not production-quality software, and as far as I'm aware, never has been. Further, as far as I understand, some of the flaws are indeed in the architecture -- e.g. the fact that the message-duplication-on-filtering bug (which is a data-loss bug!) has not been solved in over five years, is IMO a strong indication that the lines between KMail2 and Akonadi were drawn in the wrong places. Shai. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
