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Survey results are in

 KDE4, Other  2 Responses »
Jan 192012
 

Here are the results from the survey:

75% answered “yes” on the question whether they use kontact or not. Those who answered “no” did not get to the rest of the survey. All questions except the last two were multiple choice.

Component usage:

E-Mail93,42%
Contacts78,95%
Calendar77,63%
Feedreader53,95%
Task list35,53%
Summary19,74%
Yellow Notes17,11%
Journals10,53%
Time tracking9,21%
Other9,21%

Mail protocols:

IMAP72,6%
POP347,9%
Local Maildir17,8%
Other11,0%

Calendar sources:

Vcard files75,0%
Google contacts plugin29,4%
CardDAV11,8%
LDAP10,3%
Kolab etc10,3%
Other7,4%
Novell Groupwise1,5%

Address sources:

iCal file66,1%
Google calendar plugin32,3%
CalDAV21,0%
Kolab etc14,5%
Other11,3%

Quality compared to other PIM applications or email clients:

Poor11,1%
Below average16,7%
Average34,7%
Good33,3%
Excellent4,2%

Has kontact improved over time:

Improved23,9%
The same25,4%
Worse50,7%
 Posted by lemmy at 12:14  Tagged with: , ,

Just out of curiosity… KDE4 Kontact usage survey.

 KDE4  No Responses »
Jan 042012
 

Hi everybody,

please fill in this survey.

It is completely anonymous.

http://bit.ly/wgluIp

thanks!

 

http://bit.ly/wgluIp

 Posted by lemmy at 10:01  Tagged with:

single-sign-on on openSUSE / KDE4, or the three faces of the community

 KDE4, openSUSE, Rants, Tips & Tricks  1 Response »
Nov 142011
 

It seems that “the community” consists of three separate groups of people:

  1. the people who loudly demand features
  2. the developers who loudly debate the ethic, moral, technical religious impacts if the features demanded by 1.) would be implemented
  3. the small group of developers who watch 1. and 2. and at some point say “Oh for crying out loud. What a noise over 5 lines of code.”

As an example, look at the discussion over the feature request in kmail where someone wants kmail to be able to remove attachments from mails.

As another example, look at this one… Some people would like to see single-sign-on in KDE4. The discussion was long and loud.

And… if you google a bit… you find that the wallet daemon has had the required dbus call since KDE 4.4.2, for crying out loud!

Just that noone has bothered to point a finger at the required pam modules and helpers.

I’ve packaged them for openSUSE, get them from my OBS project and configure them as described in the readme files included in the packages… and you have single sign on.

Note: single sign on only happens if you actually enter a password on login. The typical suse setup with an user session starting automatically on boot can’t work with this.

Note: this seems to work only for local useraccounts, but not in a NIS environment.

 Posted by lemmy at 15:03  Tagged with: , , ,

openSUSE 12.1 – coming soon

 KDE4, openSUSE  No Responses »
Nov 102011
 

I’ve been testing openSUSE 12.1 RC2 for a week now, and so far I’m impressed.

Network installation went pretty well (after I had figured out that the reason for the initial woes was the DHCP server here at work, not suse…), and so far a lot of stuff that used to need manual intervention “just works” now, for example the use of ksshaskpass for ssh-add and other little quirkies.

On the other hand there are a few oddities, none of them being the fault of the openSUSE people, as far as I can tell:

  • kopete refuses to “do” MSN – MicroSoft has changed something on their end; kmess needed a patch & rebuild as well
  • no sun java – oracle has changed the licensing and disallows redistibution now.

Other than that: cool beans.

Especially KDE4 is impressive on this version… KDE 4.7.2 actually works now.

 Posted by lemmy at 17:12  Tagged with: , ,

Debian 5, or the joy of working with prehistorical software

 Other, Rants  4 Responses »
Oct 082011
 

For various reasons I had to setup a Debian box. Debian 5.

For building software that would be distributed in binary form and should run on any linux.

The original software that mine derives from is being built on a debian 5 system.

So, I needed one as well.

Enter: VirtualBox for Mac + Debian 5 netinstall.

So far, so good… until I actually cloned my hg repo onto the deb box, and found that the clone had two heads.

… debian uses mercurial 1.0.1 on debian 5.

1.0.1.

seriously.

that is old.

very old.

It’s a miracle that debian has heard of unicode by now.

At least I think they have heard of unicode…

gotta check that.

 Posted by lemmy at 14:52  Tagged with: , , ,

A tale of two internets

 Rants  No Responses »
Aug 032011
 

Lately I’ve come to think that there are two separate Internets out there, existing side by side and with little interaction between them.

One of them is the internet that we all know, populated by people who write their little rants about anything they care enough about.

The other is a scary place where semi-intelligent bots imitate human behaviour by auto-generating streams of gibberish aimed at each other, making it look like strangers talking to strangers.

Case in point: get a twitter account. post any random tweet but add “popular” hashtags. Observe the behaviour of “the net”. Pay special attention to some of the new followers you’ll get… do you really believe that someone follows 25000 people?

Who made up this “You have to be on twitter and facebook to be a successful company” fad, anyways?

Related: If “Search Engine Optimization” worked, none of those self-proclaimed “SEO Experts” would have to spam twitter… they would just be found with google.

 

 Posted by lemmy at 13:01

KDE 4.7 – You didn’t think you would get off that easily, would you?

 KDE4, Rants  4 Responses »
Aug 022011
 

OK, so now I did a clean install on some old work laptop.

openSUSE 11.4, fresh off the DVD, on an empty harddisk.

KDE 4.6 or whichever version comes on the DVD worked fine, using the GSM/UMTS/EDGE card that my company gave me works fine too.

So I’m using that UMTS network to upgrade KDE to 4.7, and after that, plasma crashes every time I try to connect through UMTS… terminating the connection.

So, this time, not even a rollback to 4.6.5.

Yee-haw.

 Posted by lemmy at 14:29  Tagged with: , ,

KDE 4.7 – all your emails are belong to us

 Rants  3 Responses »
Jul 282011
 

ok, so KDE 4.7 is out.

Ye-haw.

After updating to 4.7, kmail complains on startup (which takes ages, btw) that “the server does not support TLS”. It sure would help to know which server. It also would help to be able to get at my mails at all; all my folders are completely empty. Oh, and deleting a mail from one of the folders that are not empty doesn’t work either.

rollback time.

 

 Posted by lemmy at 18:23  Tagged with:

Linux turns 20, Microsoft congratulates…

 Other  No Responses »
Jul 202011
 

Cute. just cute.

 Posted by lemmy at 14:36  Tagged with: , ,

About facebook and KDE…

 KDE4, Rants  No Responses »
Jun 282011
 

Dear friends and family,

I’ve had it with FB. Every single time I read something about facebook, it is something to be annoyed, angry, or concerned about. their permanent policy of introducing new privacy-breaking features without warning and enabled by default, and their almost frightening mis-concern for their user’s data has driven me to the point where I have to say: If you want to stay in touch with me, or tell me something, or whatever:

YOU HAVE MY EMAIL, TWITTER, MSN, ICQ, AND MAYBE EVEN MY CELLPHONE NUMBER. USE IT, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

My FaceBook-account will be deactivated for good on July 1st, 2011.

 

In case You’re wondering what broke the camel’s back:

Read this.

 Posted by lemmy at 09:58  Tagged with:
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