Kontact 2 / kdepim 4.6 still experimental?

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:57:21 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 13/07/2011 15:47, Matthias Philipp wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> to wait is honestly my recommendation - or go to Arch linux forums,
> kdepim mailing list archives, kde community forums etc first and scout
> around for KMail or KMail2
> 
> What I miss in the proud announcement of it being available was perhaps
> "this is a first release for those willing to assist working out the
> final kinks" rather than "migration should go smooth"

4.6.1 is out, though no kubuntu packages yet - this bugfix release might make 
it usable looking at the items that were fixed.

My trial of Kmail2 was mostly ok, no crashes or anything major. Even the 
migration tool did a fairly good job. But some things, like broken filters and 
a couple other small annoyancees made me give up after a short time


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