Re: [Pan-users] Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

[Steven D'Aprano]

Duncan wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:56:01 +1000 as excerpted:
>
> > > 90+% of the people using Tbird still use mbox...
> > Like I said, old dinosaurs.
> >
> > A few months back, I broke my Kmail config, and decided I'd check out
> > Thunderbird (I haven't used it since it was part of Netscape 3). I gave
> > it a good go, I really did, but it felt like I was being asked to do
> > carpentry with my hands cuffed together and a small monkey riding on my
> > back hitting me with over-ripe bananas.
> >
> > I wouldn't say it is unusable, but I think it's aimed at users whose
> > expectations are lower than mine.
> >
> > That's not to say that Kmail doesn't have its problems too... all
> > software sucks, it's just that some sucks less than others.
>
> OK, I'm rereading this thread based on the current sqlite solution 
> discussion, and...
>
> What do you think of the new, akonadified (and thus sqlite, mysql, or the 
> experimental postgresql backends) kmail?


You mean kmail in KDE 4.x?

Let me know when KDE 4 gets out of pre-beta, and I'll consider using it. 
My wife has been the guinea pig for me (although she's starting to make 
rumbling noises about upgrading back to KDE 3 on threat of me sleeping 
in the backseat of the car) and I'm not impressed. It seems to me that 
nearly all the development effort has been spent on making KDE full of 
shiny chrome and hardly any effort on making it actually *work* and be 
*useful*.

KDE was already a much more complex desktop environment than Gnome 
(which was a good thing, as Gnome is dumbed down to the point of pain) 
but KDE 4 turns the complexity up to 11 and the usefulness down to 5.

I'm very interested in the Trinity desktop (fork of KDE 3), but 
currently am sticking with KDE 3, and will do so as long as I possibly 
can. Maybe by the time KDE reaches 4.9 it might be as functional and 
stable as 3.5, but I doubt it.



--
Steven