16.04 w/o KDE PIM?

[O. Sinclair]

On 04/03/2016 13:33, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> To tell the truth, KDEPIM is broken since the first 4.x version. It used
> to work so well in KDE 3.5.x, but after the "akonadified" KDEPIM 4,
> nothing is reliable as it used to be anymore.
> I've been fighting all this time to find a way through all the many
> bugs, crashes and freezes of KMail because I've been unable to find
> another mail client that can be configured to do all the things KMail
> does (or did) and I was always hopeful that things would get better with
> time, but I'm really tired of all this and in the last few months I've
> been seriously considering to switch to another mail client. I found no
> other client that is so resourceful as KMail once was, but it is more
> important to me that it is reliable and fast. KMail really hasn't been
> either for a long time and I should have abandoned it long ago.
> If Kubuntu does not ship KDEPIM anymore, it will be just the little push
> I needed to make the change, and I will wecome that. I think KDE as a
> whole will behave better without KDEPIM.
> 

Well I don't quite agree. I have very few problems using the 4.14.3
version. I get the odd duplicate email (something to do with filters).
To me it is not broken but perhaps the Plasma5 version is. In any case I
will stay on 14.10 for now. I have tried 15.04 and it simply crashed.
Have also toyed around w Manjaro (rolling) but just get irritated after
a while as so many things I am used to does not seem to work in P5.

In any case, I will wait and see. To me functionality is more important
than "new and shiny". If 16.04 comes with no KDEPIM I will either sit it
out on 14.10 or look for another distro