[Kolab-devel] State of Kontact Mail

[Heiner Markert]

Am Freitag 02 Dezember 2011, 15:03:38 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> Hello Heiner,
> 
> Am Friday, 2. December 2011 12:35:35 schrieb Heiner Markert:
> > > If you want to check out Kontact Mail (the new design) you should do it
> > > for seeing the potential or for helping to improve it.
> > > If you want a stable Kolab Client or just a nice Email and PIM
> > > application, use a stable Kontact E35 based on the KDE 3 Plattform.
> > > It nicely integrated with the new Plasma Desktops based on KDE
> > > Plattform 4. Kontact Enterprise35 has been continously maintained and
> > > improved, it is mature with lots of enterprise production experience.
> > 
> > I would love to use Kontact E35 on a KDE 4 system, if I just knew how to
> > install it. However, I am unable to find packages that can be installed
> > through the package manager for any major and recent linux distribution,
> > besides a rather incomplete Ubuntu variant where apt-pinning is required
> > to install one (fixed!) version
> > (http://wiki.kolab.org/KDE_Kolab_Client/Ubuntu) - so no automatic updates
> > will be applied. And this wiki entry does not deal with recent Ubuntu
> > releases.
> > 
> > Can you provide a way to install Kontact E35 on a modern linux system,
> > such that updates will be installed automatically through the package
> > manager, package conflict resultion is provided etc.? This would be
> > great information.
> 
> you can already (pre)order Certified Kolab Systems  packages for a number
> of modern GNU distributions, see
> http://kolabsys.com/index.php/solutions/110#clients and the price list
> (you can reach it from the top of the page):
> + Certified Kolab Client 3.5 – based on KDE Kontact. Highly tested, reliable
> and mature, available on several GNU/Linux platforms, such as Debian
> Stable, Ubuntu LTS, UCS, RHEL and Centos.
> 
> To my knowledge Kolab System aims to also provide uncertified community
> packages, if you do not need their support and maintenance services.
> It might depend on the amount of (pre)orders received by them.
> Georg will knows the details.
> 
> For Debian Squeeze there are already some packages without warranty:
>   http://files.kolab.org/apt/releases/dists/squeeze/experimental/
> 
> Another option is the KDE 3.5 maintenance initiative Trinity Desktop.
> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/, they announce packages for nine GNU
> distributions, but you probably have to completely use trinity packages
> then. The contained Kontact should be very close to the Kontact e35
> quality, without the additional quality assurance that Kolab Systems does
> for its customers before a release.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Bernhard

Hello,

I discovered today that openSUSE 12.1 has a full kde3 in its main 
repositories. KDE3 packages from there can be run in a KDE4 desktop 
environment without problems, so it is possible to install "kdepim3" in a kde4 
desktop. Works without problems for me.

Best regards,
Heiner