Looking for input from Kontact users (Andre Heinecke)

[ITSEF Admin]

On Tuesday 7 February 2012 12:38:27 Alexander Haensch wrote:
> I think the same as Andre. Kontact was developing very nicely.
> Especially since 4.7.x it is very usable.
> I remember a lot of problems with migration from kmail 1 to kmail 2.

So this will be another nightmare waiting for us should we decide to stay with 
Kontact? I've seen these remarks several times and they do not help... 
Currently, we still use e35 under Kubuntu 10.04 - and if wiping the config 
was all that is needed I'd be almost happy...


[...]
> If you start using kontact today with 4.7.x, you will not be disappointed.

The pilot looks somewhat promising so far, but that's only a single user (and 
not one of those that had the most problems) at the moment, so the jury is 
still out.


> All these discussed problems with mysql or NFS are not really that
> problematic. Why not using a centralized mysql server? Why not keeping
> kontact caches local? Where is the reason to mirror it via NFS? It is a
> cache of server objects! You do not need it on the server again.

Why? Simplicity. I have a home directory. I mount it from the NFS server and I 
expect everything to work then without additional effort. That's the way it 
has been in Unix-environments for a long time (yes, I am aware of NFS' 
problems and I know this is a simplified statement...). Now I suddenly have 
to invent all sorts of extra configurations, scripts and whatnot just to keep 
a few applications happy and to separate their stuff from all the other stuff 
that's normally stored in $HOME, thus incurring extra work, extra points of 
failure and extra need for testing. At the very least this is a nuissance... 

Cheerio,

Thomas
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