Kontact Calendar - IMAP etc

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> I had the problem Derek mentioned for a period, but seems to have
> gotten fixed a couple of weeks ago.  The folder tree showed more
> unread than were there, but the title bar count was accurate.

In fact, I think I'm putting that down to the exchange server too.  If I
wait long enough, the folder display is actually corrected.
 
> Evolution currently uses OWA for exchange data, and won't work with
> Exchange 2007.  There is a MAPI replacement in development, but not
> yet ready, that will work with all versions of exchange.

That's good - I expect it will be available before this client actually gets
around to upgrading to Exchange 2007 (which I would expect not to happen
before 2009).
> 
> The conduits and back end are way more reliable than kpilot and the
> exchange data is updated properly with a sync.

Great.  That's the next thing I wanted to check.
> 
> I think Ingo and the rest of the kontact developers work hard to be
> responsive to bugs, but don't seem to fix them, just acknowledge them.

Yes.  I just got so tired of seeing not only acknowledgement of problems,
but submitted patches that nobody would either apply or at even give an
opinion of their value.  I'm waiting for Intrepid, to see what the latest
kontact looks like, but if it's not much-improved (and I get the impression
it isn't), I may well switch the rest of my kontact usage to evolution,
too.

>  The evo developers seem to work on performance over interface, and
> that seems to be an illustration of gnome and kde these days.  I use
> gnome at work and kde at home.  I prefer the kde interface, but the
> performance has taken an increasing back seat to interface.  With
> gnome, it mostly looks the same as it did 4 years ago, but stability
> and performance are rock solid and improving.

Sad, but I think you're probably right.
-- 
derek