New native Windows and Mac OS Clients: first beta of Kontact Enterprise 4

[Troy Carpenter]

On Tue January 13 2009 11:40:06 am Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hello Friends of the Kolab Groupware Solution,
>
> as a christmas present the new server files.kolab.org was unveiled
> on kolab-devel@ on the 19th of December and it already had
> 'beta-huge-debug' versions of Kontact Enterprise 4 for Windows and Mac OS
> X.
>
> The available betas are huge, because they contain all debugging files,
> everything and the kitchen sink. Still, why should we have waited longer?
> You know it is a beta and bad things might happen,
> but you get to make the choice if you want to try it anyway.
> In best tradition of early publication in Free Software development
> you the Software now, despite some known problems. Go to
>
>   https://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kontact_for_Windows_(beta-huge-debug)
>   https://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kontact_for_MacOS_(beta-huge-debug)
>
> We will polish the installation packages during the next months.
> Feedback is highly appreciated, e.g. on the public mailinglists!
>
> Best Regards,
> Bernhard


I just installed the packages.  Great job and finally I have an integrated 
solution for all my data (Synckolab is great, but this is ideal).

Here's my feedback so far:

Installation went great.  When I installed it asked if I wanted English, which 
didn't seem to have any effect...everything came out in German.

Kolab Wizard: Thank goodness for my vast German knowledge...just kidding.  
Having used this for all my other systems I knew what was going on...but 
someone else who doesn't know kolab or German may get lost there.

I managed to get most of the UI into English, but there is still quite a bit 
of German.  Again, familiarity with Kontact helps, but obviously this is an 
area that needs work.

Questions: 
1. How do I change other settings that are normally controlled via the KDE 
control panel, like date format?  The menu selection under Settings gives some 
QT warning (in German which I can't read).

2. I have KDE 4.2rc1 installed on Windows. Is this version Kontact eventually 
targeted for inclusion in the Windows port?

I will continue to play around with it.  I've had two unexplained crashes so 
far, but given the status of the software, I'm expecting crashes.

Troy

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