Since my last blog, a few more bugs have been fixed in the KDE PIM 4.6 branch, so we’ve put out another RC release. This will likely become the final 4.6 version that gets tagged in a few days and released next week.
I’ve been trying to make clear that this is a usable, if not entirely bug free (or regression free) release. There is no need to fear it, but do try it. Returning to KDE PIM 4.4 may mean you lose trivial information like emails you marked read or important while using 4.6, but certainly not world-ending information loss that can never be recovered.
Still we do consider this a release worth switching to for many people. KDE PIM 4.6 will not fix all problems of all users of 4.4, but it puts us on track to get there.
May 31, 2011 at 1:16 pm |
And what about huge cpu eating by akonadi when kmail receiving emails? I’ve tried kdepim beta and rc1 but it was the same.
May 31, 2011 at 1:40 pm |
wow, unbelievable. looking forward to giving it a swing.
May 31, 2011 at 2:12 pm |
Thanks for the heads up regarding KDE PIM 4.6. But using a lolcat picture for illustration might ruin one’s reputation among serious KDE users…
May 31, 2011 at 8:37 pm |
I wasn’t aware there were any serious KDE users, and if they were I wouldn’t expect them to find my blog. Most people in KDE are a little bit silly
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May 31, 2011 at 2:30 pm |
Kmail2 is certainly great and the whole thing look very promising but it’s yet not on par with kmail1, akonadi need to be restarted often, and it lag seconds and decaseconds for many operations.
If you want feel free to contact me via email to receive more information
P.S. please, pretty please give me a message when it has NOT been able to send a message
May 31, 2011 at 8:38 pm |
You’d need to check bugzilla for such issues and file a new bug if needed.
I don’t know of anyone needing to restart Akonadi all the time.
June 2, 2011 at 12:25 pm
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274750
kmail2/akonadi fail to send messages, kmail long uptime
It’s one that need some time to reproduce, hence the delay in reporting it
On the plus side it should be rather easy to fix
May 31, 2011 at 6:38 pm |
I’ve switched since the day rc1 was released. Works quite good but i couldn’t get kmail to filter mails through bogofilter. Is this an known regression or is there something wrong with my config? (I tried recreating the filters, checked that mails arrive in ‘inbox’ and not a subfolder which was needed to make filter work at all but the pipe through bogofilter just doesn’t do anything)
May 31, 2011 at 8:36 pm |
This has probably been fixed in the RC2.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255388
Could you please retest?
June 13, 2011 at 8:43 pm
I am not talking of filters in general but piping mails through external programs to scan them for spam. I’m now on 4.7 beta1 and still the same problem exist. I cannot find a way to filter all the spam i am getting.
May 31, 2011 at 9:01 pm |
I would love to see some signficant change to the address book to make it more than an MS Access/OO.org Base entry form.
June 1, 2011 at 3:57 pm |
One of the nice effects of all these changes is that it is now way easier to create alternative UIs for working on the same data set.
An experienced developer could probably create a new address book interface in a day, someone totally new (to KDEPIM) could probably still do it in a week.
June 5, 2011 at 5:03 pm |
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