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Comment on Survey results are in by HK

HK — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:15 +0000

+1 for Hakan’s words. I used to be a die-hard kmail user with over 1.200 filters configured and over 150.000 mails stored in my kmail 1.13.6 system. But since akonadi appeared on the scene, the user experience has become messier and messier. Things just don’t work, configuration requires a computer science degree, performance becomes an issue, development of the application moves away from user’s wishes. Now, 2012, KMail2 is still a no-no, for new mails I switched to TB+Enigmail, the only problem left is how to manage the very large amount of data that are in maildir format.
I wonder what the inventor of Akonadi thinks of his software. What are the “advocates”, the Akonadiots, thinking, who drummed into everyones ears that the Akonadi way of doing things was better? In reality, the Akonadi ideology has turned into an enormous disaster which is killing KDEs credibility as a whole (no KDE program is more important the the mailer, which was ruined by Akonadi). The fact that Mandriva had to switch to Thunderbird tells it all. And, let’s face it, Akonadi has been a problem for years now, formerly kontact/KDE-sympathising people are defecting in droves, why would QA of Akonadi suddenly work? The system is too ambitious and will likely never be pulled of well. And that means the days of a nice, fast, dependable, normally-configurable user-centric KDE mailer are over. What a sad story this is!

Comment on Survey results are in by Hakan Duran

Hakan Duran — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:18 +0000

Many users, including myself, got used to the luxury of being able to do things with Kontact/Kmail in KDE 3.5 era with ease, efficiency and speed. The introduction of the akonadi/nepomuk backend was a set back for those of us. Kontact just started to look like what it used to be, but it has to get better than that. After all, we have been waiting patiently for how may years now to see this happening. Of course we are aware that this is a unilateral demand since most of us cannot contribute to the development efforts.

Comment on Debian 5, or the joy of working with prehistorical software by Martin Steigerwald

Martin Steigerwald — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:29:47 +0000

Well how about then to rant about that old software or that strict requirement instead of Debian? I received your blog post as a rant against Debian instead – especially the unicode stuff. And if you intended it as such, it should at least be based on the current stable version of it although Lenny came by default with UTF-8 as well.

Otherwise I could rant about the crap that in OpenSUSE 10.1 or so was intended to be used for package management that sometimes wasn´t able to install a simple, small package within 15 minutes with 99% CPU using Zenworks Management Daemon zmd only SIGKILL-able then. But thats history as well and zypper now seems to be pretty good.

See what I mean?

Comment on Debian 5, or the joy of working with prehistorical software by Site Admin

Site Admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:46:38 +0000

Before you try to start a flamewar, read the whole text:

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

So, I needed one as well.

I have strict requirement to build the linux binary on a debian lenny. Can’t be helped.

And I know about the backport of a newer mercurial, thank you very much.

Comment on Debian 5, or the joy of working with prehistorical software by Martin Steigerwald

Martin Steigerwald — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:34:08 +0000

Okay, and about Unicode. Debian uses UTF-8 since Debian Lenny by default.

So when you rant, please do it *about facts*, not *myths* or *dice rolling* what might be the case.

Comment on Debian 5, or the joy of working with prehistorical software by Martin Steigerwald

Martin Steigerwald — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:32:10 +0000

Do you know that Debian 5 aka Lenny is not the most current Debian stable release? Squeeze is! I do not test with OpenSUSE 10.1 either and complain about old versions. And even for Lenny there is a backport of a newer version available:

martin@merkaba:~> rmadison mercurial | cut -c1-72
 mercurial | 1.3.1-1~bpo50+2 | backports/lenny   | source, alpha, amd64,
 mercurial | 1.6.4-1         | squeeze           | source, amd64, armel,
 mercurial | 1.8.3-1~bpo60+1 | backports/squeeze | source, amd64, armel,
 mercurial | 2.0-2           | wheezy            | source, amd64, armel,
 mercurial | 2.0-2           | sid               | source, amd64, armel,
martin@merkaba:~>

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

KenP — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:47:32 +0000

Packages such as Likewise allow one to join a domain using your own domain username/password – just as one can do from a Windows workstation. However, openSUSE’s implementation seems to require domain Administrator login. Unfortunately, in office networks where Windows is the dominant OS (99% of them!), it is nigh impossible to get the Admin to help you join your Linux box to the domain — even if Linux is officially supported (like in my company).

Is there a way to do this without domain admin login?

Comment on KDE 4.7 – You didn’t think you would get off that easily, would you? by Links 8/8/2011: Many New Games, Reviews | Techrights

Links 8/8/2011: Many New Games, Reviews | Techrights — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:37:43 +0000

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Comment on KDE 4.7 – all your emails are belong to us by Links 6/8/2011: Catching Up With a Week Ago | Techrights

Links 6/8/2011: Catching Up With a Week Ago | Techrights — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:15:24 +0000

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

lemmy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:55:21 +0000

might be, but I’m not going to move to a completely different distro. too much of what I use my box for is depending on suse…