FWIW, I have been using Thunderbird for years as my e-mail client of choice, and it has never let me down. I've got seven e-mail accounts coming into it, using Lightning for my calendar (synced up with multiple Google calendars). I've got tons of stored e-mails all the way back to 1999 and all of this running off of an encrypted flash drive so I can move it between my PC and my laptop. Thunderbird may look kinda ugly in KDE compared to Kmail, but it's all about the functionality for me.
-~Chris On 08/30/2012 06:39 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 08/29/2012 05:14 PM, Chris Cannam wrote: >> I'm not sure there is such a simple dichotomy, though. It has so much >> to do with temperament and perspective. > Indeed. Rosegarden is a perfect example. If I could go spend, say, > $500 once for something that did everything Rosegarden wants to do, and > behaved in a pretty similar way all around, then I probably would have > parted with that cash years ago. The problem is you can spend a lot > more than $500 for two or three different applications that don't even > communicate with each other, don't share data amongst themselves, etc. > Not only do you not get the Rosegarden that works that you pay for, you > don't pay for it once. Oh no no. > > I was still using a version of Cakewalk that only understood 8.3 > filenames all the way to 2001. I paid for it once in 1993 or something, > and I was damn well going to keep using it forever. > > That's the great thing about FOSS. Free updates for life. You don't > pay once, you don't pay ever, and the updates just keep flowing. > > The crappy thing about FOSS is that that old version from 10 years ago > that worked perfectly will no longer compile on a modern system. Just > look at all the hell we went through keeping Rosegarden alive through > the Qt 4 nightmare. This means that whether you do it today or next > month or a couple of years from now, sooner or later you're going to > have to upgrade your entire system from top to bottom. > > When you do, you may break half the world. Or at least break the most > important application you use every day. > > When that happens, there's just no good answer. Can I pay money for a > KMail that actually works, and doesn't break the continuity of 11 years > of the same ~/Mail folder? Apparently not. Whether I pay money or not, > I'm still just shit out of luck on that front. Thanks, KMail developers, > for completely destroying an application I've been using at least a > dozen times a day for 11 years. Even though I'm a developer and I well > understand how hard this whole game is, I'm more than half tempted to go > create a KDE bugs account for the sole purpose of extending them a big > fuck you. > > It wouldn't be productive at all, or fair, but it might be cathartic. > > Bitter? Not me. No, never. > > We'll see how Thunderbird fares. I have deep concerns that this message > is going to come out in HTML. If so, I apologize. I'll figure it out > in due course. It looks like this is my KMail replacement, and it's a > huge improvement so far, because I can actually click on a message and > read it any time I want. Plus, it's not webmail. I detest webmail. > > /rant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
