KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[Basil Chupin]

On 24/03/12 00:14, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 23/03/12 20:58, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>> On 23/03/12 11:51, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:39, Myriam Schweingruber<myriam at kubuntu.org>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:27, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> well well, on forums.kde.org a developer claims that this was
>>>>>> deliberately
>>>>>> removed to "complete transfer to Akonadi" but is back in "trunk". But
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> not be back in main code until 4.9...
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please provide a link to that forum thread? I can't find a
>>>>> post stating it was deliberately removed so far.
>>>>
>>>> Nevermind, found it: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>>>>
>>>> /me wonders how they can ship that and then be astonished end-users
>>>> complain...
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Myriam
>>>>
>>> You are not the only one Myriam...
>>> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>>>
>>> disabled - not removed. But effect for us users is the same
>>
>> As it is with all Linux distros, there are other options available.
>>
>> Unless you have a VERY particular reason to use kmail - which, in this case,
>> is not working for you anyway - then why not use Thunderbird? Latest version
>> out is v11.0.
> Thunderbird is slower (for me, at least),

I have been using Thunderbird since it was first known as a component of 
Netscape. I have never found it to be slow.

So I am wondering why you consider it to be "slow" - a term which, as 
mentioned here, appears to be a relative term :-) . Why do you think 
that it is slow?


>   but due that kmail now have
> this annoying issue that it just "disconnects" and doesn't get new
> emails after a while (after 1~3 hours, unpredictable), and I have to
> close it and re-open to get it going again, I guess I have no way out
> but to go back to thunderbird (evolution is not in good shape right
> now either).
>
>> "Why keep doing it if it hurts?"
> well, thunderbird hurts too, only not on so important areas

So it only hurts only on those unimportant points, right? :-) .

Again, could you please mention what these points are where TB "hurts".

> .... at
> least it will get new emails.

Well, it seems to me a very good reason then to use it, right? :-D


BC

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