Kontact 2 / kdepim 4.6 still experimental?

[Matthias Philipp]

Hi Sinclair,

thanks for your reply! That sounds indeed still very experimental...

It's a pity though. I was so looking forward to finally have CalDAV and
CardDAV support in Akonadi. But I'll rather wait for 4.7.

Best regards, Matthias

On 13.07.2011 15:10, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 13/07/2011 14:06, Matthias Philipp wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I noticed that KDE released a new version of the Kontact suite together
>> with KDE 4.6.4.
>> While the new KDE packages are available in the Kubuntu Updates PPA, I
>> found the Kontact packages to be still in the Experimental PPA.
>>
>> Has anybody an idea why Kontact 2 / kdepim 4.6 is still experimental?
>> Will it be moved to the Updates PPA in the foreseeable future?
>> Do you have any experiences with with it i.e. is it usable yet?
>>
> Having done the upgrade and been at x number of forums and mailinglists
> it is clear to me that it is a sort of "kde 4.0" version. In other words
> go for it if you have time for nuisances and potential problems and
> bugs, not otherwise. Wait and see if it comes in SC 4.7 or when Kubuntu
> moves it to "backports" ppa.
> 
> As I understand only Arch moved it to main repos and the users are all
> but happy - many of them at least.
> 
> For me it works but I do have:
> frequent "hangs" do to something called "conflict resolutions"
> erraticly working spamfilters
> a trash folder that can only be emptied manually
> a search function that only works for subject lines
> 
> otherwise it works reasonably well - for me. But others have far worse
> problems.
> 
> Kind regards
> Sinclair
>