KDE flashbacks
After trying KDE for a couple of days I have started to seeing more and more frequent flashback from my previous KDE experiences.
Everything is indeed configurable in KDE. Though it is just a pain in a certain crack to find out where and how to configure that little bit you wanted to configure. KDE's panel configuration is awful compared to Gnome panel's ease of configuration. It takes forever to configure and it really is not intuitive at all!
My number one concern on the K environment is the lack of a decent email client. I use email a lot and it is the second most used application next to my Web browser. I use only the very best Web browser (Opera) that is giving me the very best online experience. The same should go for my email experience! Sure Opera's inbuilt email client M2 is an excellent email client. Though I need to be able to separate my email and online work-flows from time to time. Having a combined email client is tiresome on those occasions. And not being able to transfer attachments larger than 3,5 MB is really a pain in a place well known to KDE folks!
These are all flashbacks from my previous KDE experiences… I think I will stick with Gnome. At least until there is a better email client than KMail around…
Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-01-30 at 03:01
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5 comments
What do you miss when using KMail?
Considering KDE4 is in heavy development at the moment it's probably a good time to make feature requests
Personally I use Kontact which is just a collection of all of the nice little organiser utilities in KDE in one interface (using KMail).
Comment by Danny Brain (Subscribed) at 2007-01-30 @180.
First of all I miss a good user interface and contact book. I know I can use Kontact, but I do not use all the rest of the applications so it is pretty much a wast of memory.
I also miss better handling of replies. I use bottom posting, proper attribution lines at the top of the message, plan-text in UTF-8 of about 70-75 characters a line. Evolution handles this just fine, put with Kmail I have to move the cursor, copy and reformat text all the time. It just takes a lot more to get a reply done than it would have done with Evolution.
I have also experienced that KMail uses more bandwidth for IMAP transfers than Evolution do.
…and as I said: the configuration of most KDE applications, and especially the desktop panels, is just too complicated and little intuitive.
Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-01-30 @616.
Use Thunderbird. It works everywhere.
Comment by Arun at 2007-01-30 @659.
I'd be surprised if Kontact was as resource hungry as it looks. All of the little 'applications' are KParts, I'm fairly sure it just works as a launch pad for these apps rather than keeping them in memory.
KMail seems to be using your reply technique already? Maybe I'm reading that wrong. But either way there arn't many configuration options for replies in the KMail settings, which is a bit dissapointing. Might be worth raising a feature request on http://bugs.kde.org.
KDE configuration is a little all over the place, but I kind of like it. Nearly everything seems configurable, it's hard to keep huge amounts of options in a easy to use interface.
It sounds like that's one of the big things they're planning on fixing for KDE4.
Anyway don't take this as a big rant to get you on to KMail/Kontact, go with what you like. Just a "if there's a feature you'd like, let the dev team know"
Comment by Danny Brain (Subscribed) at 2007-01-30 @665.
I agree, everything in KDE is configurable. It is just impossible to figure out where and how to configure it!
And I have submitted feature requests and bug reports on KMail. Especially the search in KMail (and KDE in general) is problematic and little intuitive.
Another problem I have with KDE is that there is no real good Jabber/XMPP client available. Such as Gajim for Gnome.
I guess I am just too into Gnome now to even bother to make my way trough the pain of KDE.
Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-02-04 @655.
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