On Saturday 08 March 2014 12:47:38 GEO wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2014 20:17:16 Christoph Feck wrote: > > In other words, let us ask the "are we there yet?" question again for > > KDEPIM, and invite users to report thing that still might need to be > > addressed. > > If you ask me, KDEPIM offers a stable experience since 4.11 (Using it since > 4.11 and everything just works for me, but I am just using it for Mails).
You said that at the wrong time, since yesterday I have to sacrifice chickens to get my Gmail inbox to sync :( I'd re-add the Gmail account if it didn't take forever to download and especially index the email - so I am greatly looking forward to 4.13 ;-) > However new users not familiar with kmail will notice the following > instantly (have not tried 4.13 though): When adding an Imap account they > will immediately get a notification, that the imap ressource is broken. > (see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=133524726312376). They will think > kmail is broken now, although they need just to press "Check Mail" and the > imap resource will work as expected. > This would be something I would definitely look into, even if its just a > notification, but that will distract new users. > > Apart from that, the decision how Local folders work is a bit different > compared to other mail clients will confuse new users if they do not know > about it, which I think may lead to their opinion stating that it is > broken. (e.g. if you add a second pop3 account, no new folders will be > created, everything will just be mixed up with the existing local folders, > or sent mails of imap accounts will land in Local folders, which will > distract the users when they have configured more than one imap account). > Of course advanced users can configure the mentioned things in this > paragraph, but new users will be terribly confused. > > Please do not get me wrong, I am a satisfied user, but I think this area > needs some work. You may disagree with the second paragraph, but the first > issue with the broken resource definitely needs to be fixed. > Unfortunately I did not find the time yet to look into it, but I suppose it > would take very long, as I do not have experience. Luckily the Pimsters are blessed with new blood and I hope the renewed energy will result in somebody picking up things like the above.
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